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Christina's Creations: December 2008

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The ramblings of a knitaholic, bearmaking, cross stitching, Japanese embroidering, handspinning and dyeing, yarn stashing, book hoarding, patchworking, dog owning lunatic. Sunday, 28 December 2008. Winter warmers - for the feet. What is your favourite way of keeping your feet warm? I must admit, I’m a massive fan of knitted wool socks! I have quite wide feet at the front and have to wear cloth training shoes to accommodate them so if it’s raining, my feet get wet! All rav. links). Mindbenders (Millicent,...

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Knitting and more: January 2008

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A place to talk about knitting and other related textile happenings. Friday, January 25, 2008. I knitted this jumper some time ago as an example of using a machine knititng technique called wave stitch (or pillar stitch). I have now finally written the pattern for the jumper. The jumper is knitted in Yeoman Yarn's Panama 4ply; 50% cotton 50% acrylic. Links to this post. Labels: machine knitting pattern. Thursday, January 24, 2008. Back in the swing of things. Links to this post. Sunday, January 20, 2008.

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Knitting and more: May 2009

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A place to talk about knitting and other related textile happenings. Saturday, May 23, 2009. Patchwork/domino knitting handspun waistcoat. Around this same time I learnt about Patchwork/Domino knitting and made a couple of large shawls using the squares unit. Having made a couple of shawls and a cushion I thought I should try to make a garment and decided to use my handspun as patchwork is a great technique for using up small amounts of different yarns. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Knitting and more: July 2009

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A place to talk about knitting and other related textile happenings. Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Managed to import last night's blog. I don't know what was going on last night but whatever i did I couldn't access this blog so ended up starting a new blog. This morning I decided to have another go at access my existing blog and everything seems to be OK now, I even worked out how to import my blog from last night! I still don't understand what is going on but at least it is working now! Links to this post.

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Knitting and more: August 2008

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A place to talk about knitting and other related textile happenings. Saturday, August 02, 2008. John Allen Design Group and IKnit. A couple of weeks ago I went to London for the day. I run the Farnham based John Allen Design Group and this year we went to the South Bank for our study day to collect inspiration for next year's class. There are lots of interesting areas to work from so I will have to see how I get on. I may even be brave enough to post some of my work at a later date! Links to this post.

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Knitting and more: Felted Knitting and Needlefelting

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A place to talk about knitting and other related textile happenings. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Felted Knitting and Needlefelting. When I posted on Sunday I forgot I did have some images of both felted knitting and pieces of 3D needle felting. I have previously posted pictures of 2 knitted felted bags that I designed and sell patterns for. These 2 bags where originally knitted in Elle Merino Brights (Aran weight) felting wool but as this yarn is no longer available I reworked the pattern for Noro Kureyon.

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Knitting and more: Catching up and Top down jumper

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A place to talk about knitting and other related textile happenings. Sunday, April 26, 2009. Catching up and Top down jumper. This last month and a half seems to have flown by. March started off with a machine knitting exhibition in Bournemouth that went very well. There seemed to be more people attending the exhibition this year which is encouraging. Wow - you live the dream life! Sounds like you have a fulfilling career! Like the sweater, good luck with your work. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Knitting and more: January 2009

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A place to talk about knitting and other related textile happenings. Friday, January 30, 2009. I recently started making a top down raglan V-neck jumper for myself! I am knitting it in Rosarios 4 Capuccino which is a 60% milk fibre, 40% Australian wool mix and is about an Aran weight. It feels like a smooth good quality wool to knit with and as you can see from the picture this particular colourway is variegated. I'll post another picture when I am near the bottom of the body section. Links to this post.

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Knitting and more: June 2008

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A place to talk about knitting and other related textile happenings. Tuesday, June 03, 2008. I recently wrote an article on substituting yarns for Knitting magazine but due to limited space I didn't give any information about the yarns used in the swatches. Here is some information about the swatches and some more that wheren't included in the article. I hope this information helps some of you to experiment with the yarns you use to knit patterns. You don't have to be tied to the yarn (and colour) th...

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Knitting and more: April 2008

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A place to talk about knitting and other related textile happenings. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Opera House. Bridge. Harbour. It must be Sydney! We got a travel card so have used all modes of transport - especially the ferries! We are about two miles from the harbour so the busses have taken a bashing. Fi found a wool shop on the first day (Needle Craft and knit bar) which took up some time. Today we walked through the Botanical Gardens and sat on Mrs Macquaries' seat! Links to this post. Our final exper...