tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60088942012-01-29T08:55:28.843-08:00For my spinning, knitting, fibery thoughtsLindseynoreply@blogger.comBlogger751100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1149732708636915502006-06-07T18:37:00.000-07:002006-06-07T19:11:48.666-07:00

so this thing does not work well; however, it is amusing. When to black Angus with my friends to talk about knitting that I could not do. I very much to want to knit the nautilus from the latest issue of Knity. Its not going to be soon, however because my wrist to currently really hurts. The other strange thing we were talking about a black Angus was the needy pattern of convertible

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So... ya'll know I craft, yes? I mean, I talk about it occasionally, right?I finished something, finally.A while a go I made a little blue teddy bear with a needle felted face. He got lonely, so I made him a friend. While working on the friend, I realized that I was making a Rodneysaur. You all have read that peice of OMGcute crack!fic, yes? No? GO NOW. It's too cute.If his friend is a rodneysaur

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Well, I'm knitting again. Doc gave me the go ahead. The long dry spell is over!And what am I knitting, you ask? (Ok, nobody will ask, because it's been so long that the only people visiting my blog now are spambots and the very occasional googler. HI GOOGLER!) I am knitting socks!Yes, the sock bug has bitten me right in my mousy rump. And yet, I hate dpns. Why? They make my widdle wrists hurt (

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It's been damn near two months. My god!I finished the hats... And got a nice picture of us all together.And then? I knitted my mother a hat out of Mission Falls 1824 Wool in Natural and Amethyst. Supposedly you can hit gage with size 8s... I hit it at size 4. Now, I know I knit loosely, but that's ridiculous.I also re-learned how to purl, from this site: KnittingHelp.com Nice site, and good

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So. Many. Hats...My hands are going to fall off, but I've got 5 out of 9 hats done, with a 6th about 20% done.I will do this. I CAN do this. Only one month to go, but I will perservere!Wish me luck...

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Hey there!Long ago, I posted about the bunny I was knitting for a friend . And then I did nothing for a long time.Well, that's not precisely true. I searched high and low for a wee little Stetson for him. He just looked... naked without it. And two months went by.But I will not be stopped! That, my friends, is a tiny little felt Stetson, hand made by me. Yup, I ended up hand making felt in the

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Arg.Well, I have been crafting... for the last day or so, anyway.I washed some wool, and introduced a couple of friends to dyeing. We have a reenactment event next weekend, so I was going for some muted, 'natural look' colors, even though I'm cheating and using food coloring. Yes, I know, if I was a better historian, I'd use period dyes, but I'm not good at mordanting yet, and I don't have a

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1116955830049234842005-05-24T10:27:00.000-07:002005-05-24T10:30:30.056-07:00

So... I'm doing a trade with a friend for some old due South tapes (cop show from the late 90s) . My part of the trade? A knitted bunny. But not just any bunny...A Benton Bunny.This is Benton Fraser. He's a member of the RCMP.And this is the Bunny in Progress. No, no lanyard, or hat, and no, he's got no boots on... but a bunny doesn't need boots, right? I modified the Heartstrings Bunny pattern

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ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG......I swear I've been knitting. Finished a scarf.Multidirectional scarf, two balls Noro Keruion (spelled wrong, I know). Knit on size 8.Knitted another bunny, this one with intarsia (sp?). Never done intarsia before. Easier than I thought.Um... the Mate taught himself to knit. I lent my nifty new needles to somebody and they bent them. Been spinning at the Ren Faire.Oh!

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1113609525174436532005-04-15T16:57:00.000-07:002005-04-15T17:04:47.603-07:00

Well, see, I found this shrunken sweater at the store... and I want to make a bag out of the body... and, see, there's these sleeves...Anyway, along the lines of the Heartstrings Bunny, I give you the Technicolor Piglet!More on that later, I think...

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I actualy finished something! No, really!This is the Heartstrings bunny, made of one knit square (minus ears). I'm teaching some people to knit, and this is a wonderful way to go from swatch -> item. That way, they're not just knitting a scarf, they're making a something.And, just because, here's a picture of me at the zoo.And who's that in the background (ok, she's not showing)? It's Dolly! The

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1112289862207765432005-03-31T09:14:00.000-08:002005-03-31T09:29:09.493-08:00

ARG. Blogger ate my post. And it was beautiful and sweet.Short summary (because i'm too bummed to rewrite the whole thing.)there's 168 hours in a week.I use up 140 of them. (Job, sleep, school, homework, ren faire)This leaves me 4 hours a day to do mundane things, like eating, showering, cleaning, and driving to the things that eat up the rest of the day. I have no time to myself.I have only knit

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1109182957342609752005-02-23T09:33:00.000-08:002005-02-23T10:30:30.120-08:00

Ack. That long already?Well, there's not much to blog about. I'm going to a conference this weekend, and in recognition of that, I'm spamming you with random, only slightly fiber related pictures.Aren't I kind?Here's the weather at Long Beach California this weekend. Note that a waterspout has appeared on the horizon. Global warming, anyone? This is not normal for southern Cal, and we've had 2 in

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I am currently enrolled in a silk screening class with a friend of mine. Hilarity often ensues. This little gem happened last night: There is a fellow in my class that seems to be quite taken with my friend, who is a looker though she doesn’t believe it for a moment. We have, my friend and I, been teasing each other about the attentions of said fellow; he pays attention to me, but pays attention

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Sorry for the long hiatus; my mother is losing her battle with alcoholism, and we're in kind of an end-game situation, so I've been keeping my head down. Not much stuff to report; I knitted Kitten something for Christmas, but am going to see her for the first time this weekend, so she gets that... Um... Oh, I know what I can tell you! I got two copies of Vivian Høxbro's Shadow Knitting for

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Ok, not really. I am thinking about radically changing my hair style. Using this Personal Makeover thing, I am trying out different looks. I uploaded this picture (hair color edited to match the closest I could get in the Makeover thing) : Here's what I basically look like now: Here are the styles I liked. Vote for your favorite in comments! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Any comments?

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Because all my towels were stolen. All of them. Three loads of towels, phht, gone. Now I can't Hitchhike. Bummer. I should stand outside a wallmart and hold up a sign that says "Disadvangated knitter, has no towels. Please help and god bless." Guess I have to change my christmas list! I couldn't stand not knitting anymore. I pulled a pattern of the web, tinkered with it, charted a pattern, and

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More experimenting with the knitting machine! That's Lion Brand Magic Stripe in Purple. Self striping sock yarn = quick easy care scarf for children. And that's about 1/4th of the part I did last night in about a half hour. What else have I been doing? Sewing! I made myself a keen hat: in about an hour. I love this pattern; super simple, and it looks nice. I'm thinking I'll make some for

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Well, the Doc says no knitting till the new year. This is killing me. I can't finish any of the projects (ok, start the projects) that I wanted to give for Christmas! I'm a knitter who isn't allowed to knit! Kill me. But Kitten and I did find a way to get me through. This is the Sew Easy knitting machine. Yeah, I know, a machine for knitting sucks the soul right out of it. You're right. It

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What did I do this weekend? I went to the Southern California Handweavers' Guild show and sale with Kitten and her mother. We had lots and lots of fun. Did I buy anything? You becha! Three bags full! First off, I got four more skeins of rug yarn. This is the stuff that's about 5$ a skein, and a skein weighs about a pound. I made my Not Sophie bag out of this, and it softens wonderfuly in

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Note: I'm having problems with Blogger eating my paragraph breaks. Sorry if it's caused any confusion. Welcome to anyone here from Blog Explosion! Leave me a comment if you are so inclined. One more day till the U.S. election. I'm scared. I'm not going to rant one way or the other, but I am frightened for myself and my family if one of the hopefuls take the election. That's all I'm going to say

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A commenter mentioned that they'd like the 'Stupid' button I had made for Wendy. Here it is. Now, don't steal my bandwidth, but you're welcome to steal the button.In other news... Um... I'm making a Multi-Directional scarf... kinda. I'm trying out the pattern with the Lorna's laces yarn I got in the GSRP; it was so pretty in the skein, and now it's Clown Barf. (My mate calls it something else,

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Thanks for the birthday wishes. And :P to a ceritan person who mocked me for having my birthday mouse up for 10 days. Last weekend was the craft show I've been working so hard for! I drove down to Long Beach friday night. Took me 3 hours. Ick. But oh well. Stayed up late Friday with Kitten to finish a hat and get stuff ready. Went to bed at 3 am. Got up at 7 to go to the show. Set up with

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It's my birthday! Sorry. I like birthdays. I am now 27 years old. Anybody have a clue when I'll start feeling like an adult? On the craft front... um, nothing to report. Oh, wait. Two years ago I taught some people to spin at a festaval, and last week at the same festaval, they came back with their work. Handspun yarn, woven into a purse. Wow. I felt keen. They have eclipsed their teacher. Next

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Hey there. So this is what i've been doing. A cabled hat, a ruffled hat, a two color hat... and a monster that didn't quite work and looks like a dog toy. Hmmm. But I have to say, two color knitting is adictive. Alot. I think I know what I was doing on the surger; lower looper needed to be over the upper looper. But it's at the shop, so I don't know when i'm getting it back. Too much to do, and

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I went yarn shopping. No, I'm still poor, but I budged a bit of money up to buy a present for my secret pal. No, I haven't mailed it yet. So far I've got at least a week's gap between buying and shipping my SP gifts.... What I ended up with (besides the present, which I'm not showing for obvious reasons) was a skein of Filatura Di Crosa 127 Print, in the Lavender Colorway. Lovely stuff, soft to

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In the spirit of bad news first, good news last, I present you with the Story Of Shorts. In my sewing class last night I began making my shorts. I took the pattern out, and, after measuring myself around and front to back (from what my teacher calls the 'sweet spot' between your legs. Yes, I find that disturbing, if only because she's a conservative, dress wearing home ecc teacher.) I determined

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That’s right. Two! First up, my first garment FO. This is the ‘t-shirt’ that I made in beginning sewing class. Yes, I’m pitiful at sewing, so I took a class. This wasn’t so hard, though I don’t like ‘setting in’ sleeves; I’m horrible at it. The pattern is Stretch and Sew, #310 (or #300, I can’t remember). The school supplied the pattern, and it looks like it is from about 1985. The hairstyles

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So, Photobucket, where I store my images, is having a outage, so no photos. And all my photos are broken until they fix the problem, which is likely to be tomorrow. Arg! Oh well. The NSB I thought was "raspberry" and "almond blossom" isn't. I checked my labels. I bought these about a year ago, so they must be an old set of colors. The colors are actually "claret" and "taupe" ... ok, so that's

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1094751147257838402004-09-09T10:14:00.000-07:002004-09-09T10:50:09.046-07:00

I have a few knitting questions for the blog world in general: First I present to you the case of Donna: Donna, from Magknits I want this sweater. It was seemingly designed just for me. I fit the measurements perfectly, which I cannot say for 99% of knitwear patterns. I usually fall just beyond the bust measurement; XL measurements hit around 44-46 inches, and I'm squarely in the 48 inch

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Remember that fleece I bought at the spinning compition at the fair? Well, I washed it with the little vial of Wooly Wash that I got from my Secret Pal (thanks!), and have a suprizing amount remaning. It was a pound going in, and it must be less than that now, but it seems like a bunch of wool! Here's the washed fleece. Yes, there's bleaching. And it's less black than dark brown. But it has so

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This weekend I knocked out a FO. Now, that's not unusual for people like Wendy, who knock out FOs in a week that involve 375.3 feet of fair isle and four cubic tons of yarn. But for little 'ole me, this is a big deal. Friday night I cast on. Sunday afternoon I cast off and felted. I present the NSB clutch, in a garish red: Before felting: After felting: And a close up of the fabric: Mouse, I

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And boy, my house was unhappy! We spent most of last night cleaning. The results? Before/After Before/After Before:After: Before: After: Ahhh, much better. Now, I know most of you don't care about my clean house, but I feel so good about myself right now I don't care. So there. :) I did get to start a new project: A NSB (Not-Sophie-Bag, as I didn't come up with a better name and now the NSB

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Well, not so lazy. I've got school now, so about half of my 'free' time is now eaten by book learnin' and class time. The real ball-buster of this semester is swim class. I'm not in the best of shape, but I love swimming, so I enroled in swimming for conditioning. Turns out i'm the slowest in the class. That sucks hard. I hate being the worst at something. But I finaly got some goggles and a

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What am I talking about? Crocheting, mostly. I went to Kitten’s house this weekend to attend the Fabulous Fiber Fest (more on that below) and she convinced me to re-try crocheting. I’ve decided two things: my hate of crochet came from the patterns I was besieged with as a child, and that I am a loose woman. When I was little, my grandmother used to crochet. A lot. Afghans, doilies, doll clothes

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1092415745631786722004-08-13T09:47:00.000-07:002004-08-13T10:26:28.140-07:00

Anybody else going? Kitten and I are. Feel free to steal the sidebar button if you're going. We should meet up somewhere. I'm going to try to collect all the names of the bloggers who are going. If you are, or know somebody who is, drop me a comment and I'll add you to the list!In other news I'm almost done with the yellow Sophie bag I started long ago. I've also decided that since I'm no longer

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Big post. When I woke up on Thursday morning, the Secret Pal fairy had been to my house! I found this on my craft chair. Oh what could be inside? A lovely card (a polar bear) with a nice note. And oh. My. God. This is 8 oz of alpaca, in the mist grey color. It’s softer than I could hope for. At first glance at the label, I was so excited that I thought that it was 1,300 yards. Now, of

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Finaly, a FO photoshoot! That's Red and Little Dead Bear, who she calls Deady Fredy. [ETA: It's Deady Teddy, as some Yetti has corrected me. ] Red is wearing my version of the RockStar Scarf I made her for Christmas... two years ago? Something like that. I used lime green mohair and Lion brand fun fur becuase it was what I had. She seems to like it, and says it's very warm. See? the painting I

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Good Thursday! Well, all right, not that good. Still looking at a way to make rent after my last day. But an ok Thursday, anyway. Though nobody bit on my offer to do graphics or website stuff on this blog, my other blog got me a small handful of work. That means I maybe won’t have to start selling stuff to make rent! Yea! A few posts ago, I showed you the painting I did of the Apple hat, (

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Interesting weekend. We went and saw "Batboy, the Musical," which was wonderful. If it is staged around you, I highly recommend it. We saw it at Santa Barbra City College, and the staging was superb. The entire musical is surreal, but so, so funny.And I managed to knit muchly during the intermission and before it started. I had planed to knit during, but I found I was laughing so hard that I had

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Finally set up the camera at work. Pictures!   This is the lace I'm working on. It's the seashell lace thing (see last post).     That's a few repeats, stretched out with the help of a drawer, two needles, one hand, and a post-it note...Here's my backpack, started long, long ago (more than 2 years...) and finished almost a year ago. yes, it's taken me this long to upload pictures... but, in my

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I just have to share this with you: That's Kitten's little girl. Isn't she a darling? Kitten just finished her 'lellow' hat, and she was showing it off. I don't have kids, and sometimes my clock is ticking hard. That little girl both helps, and hurts; I know Kitten and The Wanker's lives have changed a lot since the kids were born, and they can be a bit loud, but... Sigh. Anyway. I'm

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Well, I promised you pictures... I LIED! BWHAHHAH! Ok, I had some camera snafu's this weekend (we went to LB to visit Kitten and the Wanker) and didn't take pictures of anything. But I did the next best thing. Here's Little Dead Bear, made for Red. I'll get a picture of them together at some point. And I finally finished the red hat! Bit of a hodge podge; wool hat, acrylic stem, bright

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I hate being in limbo! Work is still up in the air, so I have no idea of my future. But I have to plan… Therefore: I’m announcing my other website: www.LindseyRobbins.com There’s my resume, and a gallery of my work. If anyone is interested, I will be opening a ‘shop’ to work on graphics: you need a button? Banner? That great picture you took of your sweater needs color correction? 5$. Almost

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What a life. I'm almost certainly going to be let go either this week or next, and, with the Mate unemployed as of three weeks ago, we're in deep, deep trouble. See, this is what happens when your blood family decides it needs to fall apart; nobody to help me! But my family by choice, Kitten, RtW, and my Clan (Scottish, not KKK, people!) are there for me, and we'll be ok. On good news, I've

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The Great Stash Redistribution Project Ah, what fun I had! And I took pictures! The Aran box got to my work Friday, but, as I wasn't there to get it, I didn't get it till Tuesday. I hopefully will have it in the mail by this Friday. The box! When I opened it, I was wary. So much has been said recently about the low quality of the contents of the boxes that I was steeling myself

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1086133268014252662004-06-01T16:35:00.000-07:002004-06-01T16:41:08.013-07:00

I found a picture of the big eyes. Awww. And that was the same look I had when I saw that the ARAN box had arrived from the GSRP. YEY! I'll go through it tonight, and maybe have pictures tomorrow. Um... don't hold your breath though. I'm bad about promising a picture that doesn't come. In other news, I'm about 19 rows into the body of Sophie. I've had almost no time to knit at all recently,

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which member of something positive are you? quiz created by heatherbat Crap. R, don't you laugh at me. You... wanker.

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About half moved into the new place. The Mate did something very, very nice; he gave me a whole wall for my crafting stuff. Now i've got an eight foot table, a set of wire cubes (like the ThreadBear yarn cubes) for my yarn, and a bookcase for my growing craft books section. Life is good. Not much other crafting news. Kitten (formaly Biddy on this blog) is going to teach me to follow a sewing

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1085154484543458052004-05-21T08:37:00.000-07:002004-05-21T09:19:40.906-07:00

Finished the fruit hat, with it's ginormus leaf. I mean it, the leaf is huge. Will come to the kids ear, I think, once she is born and wears it. Wearing it now would be... sticky. Yey for me! I followed a pattern, with only one little mistake! That leaf is cute; it has a little ridge of slip stitches running up the center, and the shaping is simple and nice. I know, I know, big deal, but I've

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Ahhh, summer vacation. So, I'm done with school for the semester, and I am very, very happy. I didn't think I'd make it. 13.5 units... plus a full time job, plus another 'job' that took me out of town every weekend. I'm not sure how I made it, but I did. And I think I might have pulled a 4.0. 0_0 So, that's good. I got a bit of knitting done while waiting for Biddy to get her newest tattoo,

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Trying again to switch my templete. Don't mind the dust...

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-108420629418903902004-05-10T09:23:00.000-07:002004-05-10T09:24:54.190-07:00

Well, blogger has updated all sorts of stuff... Anybody have a clue why their new templates won't work for me? I get the either the sidebar down below my main section, or vice versa. It's like the screen isn't big enough... Anybody else having this problem?

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Hey there! So, I've been evicted. That sucks. I have finals. That sucks. I had to basicaly quit the Ren faire, though I might end up going back if I can get somebody else to spend 2.45$ on gas for me. So what did I do? Start another project, of course! It's basicaly a Sophie bag, from MagKnits, but I used some scratchy but feltable yarn from my stash (rug yarn? I dunno what it is. I have a

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1083976976622682482004-05-07T17:42:00.000-07:002004-05-07T17:47:24.873-07:00

Ok! Everything figured out! Turns out I had two blogs! Both pointing to the same url, so it overwrote itself. When I'd sign in as one (and click "remember me") it'd go to one blog, and then it'd go to the other when I'd sign in as the other. D'oh! But it's figured out now. Also, I switched to blogspot because I'm going to have to kill my website (long story involving being hurt badly by a

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I'm being seduced! No, not by a man (that happened long ago, thank god!) but by a new craft. A creeping, money sucking, insidious craft! Quilting! Be afraid. Be very, very afraid... How did this happen? you cry. You are a spinner, a dyer, a knitter... a felter, even, but never a quilter! Have you no shame? Haven't you taken up enough of the house with your craft stuff? Don't you already

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...Blogger ate a bunch of posts? WTF? Anybody know how to get them back? I'm missing... like 3 months... [ETA] and it ate my template! ARG! I liked that template! Sheesh. I just can't have nice things...

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... Dyeing experiment went well. Screaming purple on the linen. Will post pictures when it's all put together. Poor Wendy. People are being... stupid. Come on, people! It's a copyrighted pattern! I made Wendy a button... A few thoughts on this: A) Copyright is good. Copyright makes it possible for people to design stuff and get paid for it. This is a Very Good Thing (to paraphrase Big Evil)

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1083975878869858872004-04-15T14:23:00.000-07:002004-05-07T17:43:24.576-07:00

You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already topreserve the English tongue, it should be.Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla Hee hee. Take that, Red! Hey there. Doing some neat stuff. Finally finished the pair of Fuzzy Feet for my little sister. I started the damn things back in November, meant to give them to her at

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1083976779176469032004-03-24T17:39:00.000-08:002004-05-07T17:48:33.013-07:00

Well, if you've notices changes.. you're right. Stupid blogger ate my blog, and my template, and all my posts except for the first two. So I have no archives, no previous posts... Not that I've been updating lately. My sitemeter confirms that no one is reading this blog but me. But that's ok. Means I can cus. FUCK! ASS! (in honor of Boondock Saints, a faboo movie) I have been knitting,

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Hi there. Knitting away on some small stuff. Nothing really to report. Seriously thinking about buying an Asford Traditonal

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Hello Happy Bloggers!! No, not sure why I'm excited today. Ok, that's a lie. I've been going to Curves and have lost 4 lbs in 2 weeks. At this rate I'll be my ideal weight by Christmas of next year. Unbelievable. And no, I'm not on the super-scary Akins diet or anything. I just cut my portions in half. Now that my stomach has shrunken, it's not so hard. I just stop eating when I'm full. I know

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Good things are afoot. I got a camera, so I'll be able to post pictures soon. Yey. I started (and finished) a hat, of which you will hear the Saga of the Hat in my next post. But the most exciting thing, for me, is that i'm going to buy a spinning wheel with my tax return. Now I just have to figure out which one... Short post. I'll update when I get my pictures off the camera.

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Alright. I'm participating in the ThreadyBear knit along, and Matt has come up with so many different colors for us to try! Here's the colors I'm debating: (in order ) Hedgerow, Jeans, Spice, and Tumbleweed I like how these colors bring some of the pattern forward, and some of it back. Dimensional! Which should I do? On other news: I've made some health decisions, and joined Curves. My

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New templet. I like it. Now, if I could only get this thing to archive!

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Happy New Year! :) I gave in. Rob at BlackDog kept talking about this luscious yarn.... 70 % alpaca, 30% angora... yeah, I have Indulged. 2 skeins natural, one purple fire. I might dye the natural. Oooo, handpainted Indulgence... that sounds nice. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with it... something either for the face, or something that will get a lot of touching, like the belly of a

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oh. My. God. Never, ever, ever meant to go this long. Sheesh. So much for 'blogging more often.' Anyhoo... Hope everybody had a good (Insert holiday of choice here)! It was lovely here. I went to Vegas and stayed in the Orleans hotel. Lots and lots of fun. Knitting stuff: I finished the backpack, way back at the end of the month. Here are the long withheld pictures of it in its unfelted

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Good morning! Happy Thanksgiving, for those of you who partake. We had a nice time. One of the highlights of the day was that Saint Cheryl taught me how to 'knit back', or knit without turning. What a cowinkidink, I was just reading about in some other blog about somebody catching on how to do that. Well, actually, I learned how to purl back, because I was garter stitching (is that

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I have seen the face of yarn god, and it is Velona Needleworks. Ok, maybe not, but it's the best I've ever seen, down here in Southern Ca, where yarns stores seem to be few and far between. Velona Needleworks... my god, it's a saphic orgy of yarn. My friend took me there because it was her birthday, and I told her she could go to any store and spend 40$. Of course she picked a yarn store! So

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Hello again! Boy, November is hella busy for me! I feel better than last time, and no, you don't want to know. Lets see... Haven't knitted a stitch. Not one. Haven't even picked up my needles in days and days, though I look at my yarn and drool now and again. I did pick up "Folk bags" at Borders. Looks faboo. With all the bag knitting going on, (I blame Rob and Wendy), this book couldn't have

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sick. Miserable. Not knitting. Not doing anything but working and moving and school and being sick. Oh, and Nanowrimo. I'm up to 6608 words. Went to the Southern California Handweavers sale. Was good; only bought 6 pounds of yarn and a set of headles. Oh, and a booklet called "Spin, span, spun" about spinning folklore. Gonna go now. miserable. Completly, utterly, miserable.

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Happy Halloween! Question for Blogger veterans; see down there, at the bottom of my blog? There's a set of links to the Webrings I'm on, and they will NOT all line up on one line. I can't figure out why... Any hints? Also I seem to be having a problem with my Archives.... Hmmm. To the support section! :cue batman music: I like this blogger thing, I think. Moving offices is going well; my new

Lindseynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008894.post-1067533660208080592003-10-30T09:07:00.000-08:002003-10-30T09:07:30.766-08:00

Good morning! No pictures, yet, but I am trying to post more often. Yey! Halloween is almost here! ::wriggles with joy:: I love Halloween! So, I went to a Silent Weekend last weekend. ???, you ask? Silent weekend is a kind of immerse American Sign language camp. From Friday to Sunday, you do not talk. At all. Only signing. In your cabins, at meals, everything. It's fantastic. I always learn so

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Hello! Well, as you no doubt have noticed, I changed by blog. Yes, I signed up with Blogger; manualy coding posts finaly got to me. Tommarow I shall hook up my old archives and such; for now, this is what I've got... anybody know if you can add a tag board to these things? yey automatic posting! mouse

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Testing...

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