How Fetching ...

Here's my latest FO--Fetching from knitty.com. It was an easy, fun knit. Now I just need cold weather so I can wear them.

Hi all

Just popping in for a quick hello.
I'm punk, I rock, I'm a knitter and I'm happy to be here ;-))

But.. at this moment I'm very busy, I'll be at Archeon all weekend on a Viking re-enactment fair. No knitting for me, the vikings didn't knit, but i'll be nålebinding socks. Nålebinding is a ancestor of knitting. In english you say needlebinding.

So.. I'll be at work for a few more hours, go home, get my stuff together, hug my cats and tell them to be nice for the 2 friends that come feed them, give their med's and hug them twice a day and later this afternoon I''l be off for the weekend.

I also have a new job, from november first I will be working less hours a week, for almost the same amount of money. So more fiber-time for me ;-)) I will be popping in more often then too. So I'm here, popping in every now and than, but from november first the fun of more blogging can begin :D

Have a nice weekend!
Dagdag!
Marion

Knitted Stuff at the Bee Hive in Pittsburgh

A breif tour of knitted stuff around the Bee Hive.

Einstein

This is the Einstein sweater pattern from "The Knitting Experience: Book1" by Sally Melville.

Sweater Specs:

• less than 5 x 150g balls
  
• hand-spun 100% wool dyed in a khaki green.
• straight forward, no nonsense pattern in garter stitch with the only decreases being in the sleeves
• only 2 seams
• 5 buttons
  

Full story & info. on my blog.

Monkey socks

Hi! I haven't posted in a while, I've been busy knitting away. I made the monkey socks from knitty cuz everyone else was. I really like the way they came out even though I didn't like knitting them. But the pattern looked so cool I had to finish.

New Hair Cut

For the first time in my life I had my beard trimmed by a Barber. Well since we were talking about new hair thing. I suppose that it only works for women.

Steph (aka Yarn Harlot)

I know it's been a while, but if you check out my fibre farm blog, "The Funky Lamb", you'll understand why. I've done a ton of shearing, washing, carding, dyeing, knitting etc. And, not just my own because I've been helping on other farms too. As soon as school starts again in 2 wks., I promise to try & get caught up.

A couple of nights ago, we decided to take a break & go see Stephanie again down in Aurora. This would be about 1hr from where our knitting group gathers. She remembered me from last time (which was kind of cool; okay, I was seriously excited) & posed for a great pic with Lydia (my Blythe doll that I took to meet her). You can read about the whole story on my knitting blog, "The Creative Castle". She then took a pic of us for her blog in return which can be seen on her site, "Yarn Harlot".
Although not enough time to blog on the list here, I certainly try to check in & see what everyone is up to. I love what you've all been doing from knitting to crochet to hair colours, lol.

Talk to you all soon ^..^

More Fun Hair

Yeah, Kaity's post reminded me that I had some purple hair dye just waiting on me. So I finally got around to doing the bleaching and dyeing.



You can't see the back in this picture, so I'll show you what the back looked like before I dyed it.



Oh, and I have totally been knitting. Like my cute halter/boy short set from Knitting Lingerie Style. Some socks. A short-sleeved Eiffel, and a ton of baby booties. Go check out my blog to see what I've been up to!

Vampire Licious

Okay it isnt on knitting but kinda punk/goth in a way. This is my lil'man this morning at book week parade. He is Dracular.

Another great by my mum

I havent finished anything in AGES worth speaking about, so here is my mum's latest effort.

She says "I was going to do a Kaffe Fassett one but I had to sort of adapt it because I had a lot of oddments which weren't really suitable for the "official" version. I haven't decided what to call this particular design - probably NERVOUS BREAKDOWN would be a good title as that's what I nearly had when darning in all the thousands of loose ends."

I think its awesome!

Cabled Rangoli Hat

Love this hat.
Pattern: Cabled Rangoli Hat http://desiknitter.typepad.com/rangolihatpattern.pdf
Yarn: Berroco Ultra Alpaca, 1 skein
Needles: size 6/ 16″ circulars
** there are errors in the written pattern BUT if you follow the chart instead it it right on.
Also here is a TIP:
knit the Nupps ([p1, yo,p1,yo,p1]) very loosely and when you get to the Purl 5 together it will be a piece of cake.



Happy Knitting
~Dawn

Too Lazy to Type

Socks

I feel like I haven't posted in forever... I have been knitting though. Knitting and travelling. I made these two pair of socks while driving across the country. They are both free patterns from Knitty. The purple socks are the Monkey socks and the pinkish socks are Hedera socks. Both pairs were really fun to make!!!

Amugurimi Tampon!

i know this is crochet, but.......


It's an amugurimi tampon!
Whats more punk than that?

Pattern on blog, if you are crazy enough to be interested in creating this thing.

warm and fuzzy

We were having a workshop on how to turn the heel of socks today at Knitters guild and I armed myself with the magic 28's one complete and one ready to turn. Only 2 were wanting to do the workshop so I managed to complete the 2nd one and tomorrow they go to the Guardian Angel Programme to be distributed in Mongolia.

It has been bucketing dow with rain so it gives a good excuse to curl up with dvds and work on the shawl I have going. I hope to get more FO's done from a pile of UFO's. Some will really benefit by being done as they are 2nd socks that have been put aside due to orders that needed more attention.

Punk Rock Gift Exchange - Round 3

Sign ups for the punk rock gift exchange are open. If you are interested head to www.prge.blogspot.com

Happy Knitting!!

Yay!

Hola! It is I, your Fearless leader, Kaity.

Back in the day, Like, more than I year ago, I think... I had a bright red streak in my brown hair, and I loved it. But, it faded out, and I kept dyeing it back. Then, I just had plain ol' boring Brown hair for a while, but yesterday:

I dyed a streak Blue! I freakin' love it, too.

Just thought I'd share. I'm not really knitting anything really punk right now, so I thought I'd share my hair with ya'll.

Bolero fun and such.

I've been busy with some knitting! Which, isn't a big surprise I guess.

Here's a picture of my ribbed lace bolero. I finished this in July, it's made with a really soft merino. This will be a bit more practical come the end of September, because the little thing is bloody warm!












And to the right...

This is the beginning of my Waist-Cincher Top from Knitting Lingerie Style. I'm hoping it works out fine, the girls I found on Ravelry making it (oh, I go as Zsanica there) were having issues with the armholes and bust area..

I've been paying close attention, but, I won't know until I start the V-neck.

Bday Scarf

Finally finished (after to many occupations) the scarf I made for my brother,

he love it, hope you like! ♥

My New Knitting Buddy!

Okay, I had to share a photo of my new knitting buddy. I simply could not help myself. Isn't he the cutest? Finnegan is an almost 12 week old, altered, Siameze-mix we adopted from a local animal shelter, yesterday. He's a wee ball of energy, spazoid, sweet kitten. He pounces on everything, somersaults off my couch and tries to help me knit by stealing the ball of yarn and running the opposite direction.

Now back to your regular knitting...I just had to share my new baby. The cute "baby" is currently digging dust bunnies out from beneath the refridgerator, behind me. Stinker!

I made this hat based on this, For my friend's birthday. I used the same yarn as before, Noro Kureyon. I always doodles curly q's s and wanted to incorporate it into something.
I don't really know what else to say.


Modeled by Hannah


the top.

back from vacation and some yarns

I'm just back from a vacation with my parents and now I have another week because my son is staying with my parents and I'm already back home. I already miss him, but it is great to have some time just for me.

And I had to try dying yarns with Kool Aid, I love how the colors turned out... if you like them too, you can find them in my new Etsy Shop

Knitting meet ups or groups in NJ

Does anyone know of a knitting night or something along those lines in Northern NJ. I've seen one on line.

Monster Mitts

There hasn't been much knitting here at the house of sunneshine. Too many things going on... Of course that makes it seem like the "on the needle" projects take forever. I had been dying for a monster hat from Insubordiknit - finally splurged and bought one. As I was knitting it, I realized that I wouldn't wear it. So I turned it into fingerless gloves that I love. And on chunky handspun, they took less then two hours total!
I haven't named the purple haired pirate yet, soon I'm sure...

Happy Knitting!!