Tutorial: Picking up Stitches for Limbs

Hey! This is super useful: a video that explains how to pick up stitches in the middle of your work!

This is great for doll limbs :) 

There's also some written directions and pictures here (Scroll down).

All of this lovely information is from Knitting in Circles, which sells some cute patterns :)

I haven't posting in a MONTH!

Is school really that busy? It doesn't feel like it. Also, I've barely finished a single project and I haven't spotted any good Ami on Ravelry.

Picture from Down Cloverlaine

But I thought I'd update with this awesome modification to my Kitten Mittens! Cloverlaine from ravelry made this mittens from the bottom up for her grandchildren. How adorable!! So now, if you didn't want to make them top down, you can do it her way here.

Don't forget to thank Elaine for her helpful mod and to check out some of her adorable designs, especially the ones for bibs... they are so awesome!

I've noticed that for some reason, I am backwards! I like making mittens top-down and socks toe-up. Not that everyone is the opposite, but most of the people I'm close to are! I wonder how I got that way...

New Anticraft!

Okay, so a new issue of The Anticraft is out today, and I'm as happy as a pig in mud... erm, that probably should have been my comment about the last issue, but whatever! This theme, Melange, is chock full of knitable goodies, even an adorable doll!


Okay, maybe adorable wasn't the right word... Adorably evil? This bunny may not be the best gift at the next baby shower, but a monty python fan would love it!


Check out these lolita ankle warmers... I bet, with some alterations, they'd be adorable wristlets...

I know a lot of readers that would be smug enough to use this bookmark ;)

Anyway, check out all the cool things, especially the Vlad the Impaler contest winners. That's some creative knit design!

Badger Badger. . .

Oh yes, I can make jokes! I was exploring the interweb today and found this cute pattern for mushrooms. Why? Well. . . I don't quite know why. I just think they're cute! Who needs a reason?

The designer is one Kathryn Ivy, a knitblogger who (IMHO) is representive of what good knit blogs everywhere should be. Tutorials. Free patterns. Actually talking about a project as opposed to what some people do *coughselfshamecough* . . . which is "OMG LOOK WHAT I DID YAY!"

Anyway, tis a good blog. With a good knitter. And good mushrooms.

A Wave of Relief!

Well, so, I sent in all my scholastics stuff yesterday with a kiss in a prayer. Hopefully I'll know soon! T_T

Two nights ago, I went to Michael's and bought a ton of yarn! Including (but not limited to) yarn that I'm going to work my next doll with. It is, once again, a surprise (how me is that?) and part of it is worked on straight needles! Gasp!

For now, I'm finishing up the scarf I mentioned. All I have to do is sew it when I get home, yay!

Oh, and for the 'rumi post of the day, check out http://www.ariadneknits.com/ for totally cute kitty (PDF warning).

I've had so much inspiration in the past few weeks about things to make, I need to find a new way to organize my notes.

Oh, What I have discovered!

Anti-Craft! I feel like I've been missing a great part of me, and that I've just found it out there on the interweb! I seriously think that some of these patterns are total genius, hehe!

Teratoma doll! As a note, those who aren't old enough to know what a tertoma is should probably not visit this site.

This amazing web zine is so cool. . . It's a bit punky, bit goth, bit wiccan, with hilarity in every issue! Here's a spider baby cap that could probably be easily modded to fish us non-babies:

All in all, it's a great site with creative knits, but there are some problems. I wish the archive had pictures, and that some of the patterns came with more pictures/better quality ones. . . but hey, genius and practicality can't always get along, can they?

Everyone loves fruit!

And how!

These cuties come to the internet from the awesome blog of peche, found here. Featured are a

pear, an apple (above). . . oh, and don't forget apple's twin, rotten apple! Also deep within the 'chives are Banana and, my person favourite, a peach! These would make such adorable christmas gifts!

-Sweater Update- I am le finished with the *fun* part of my sweetie's sweater! All that's left is to sew it up and have him wear it. On to the next venture!

What's your fortune?

Two posts today, to make up for my blog infedelity- but I have an excuse this time! Will all of you in internet land send an internet prayer for my grandmother? She went to the ER yesterday for an anyerism in the clavicular artery . . . or something like that. . . I can't speak doctor very well. (They cna't read a knitting pattern OR understand my young music, so I guess it goes both ways.)

Anyway, on with the post! For all of you who have seen this youtube video and felt jealous, well, I have the remedy! This knitted fortune cookie would make a cute stocking stuffer, most definitely. Hooray for indigomuse!

P.s- Check out that blog! Wheee. . .

Mochimochi

I know as much as anyone that buying patterns seems like a scam: "Hey, if I can figure it out, I'll save some money! Let me just try it myself..." Well, let me tell you! These ADORABLE creatures designed by New Yorker Anna Hrachovec are worth all the money in the world. And they're five dollars! That's quite the steal. If you need some practice following patterns, I suggest you try it out.

If you're feeling cheap, there ARE some free patterns out there on the interweb. The cute Miyazaki-inspired critters to the left are featured in the current issue of Knitty. The weblog also has a cute collection of some more simple freebies.

If you're also one of those people who like to go around reading people's knitblogs, then check out http://mochimochiland.com/weblog/ as well! All in all, I'd give Mochimochi Land an A: exciting, enticing, and most of all CUTE!

Phew! My first post! If you have any questions, requests, or links to share, feel free to post them up or email me at lynough@gmail.com