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Wed Jan 11, 09:13 PM

On with the spam! Now with photo goodness. Crafty photo goodness.

First the obligitory cat sleeping on a pile of yarn shot. Yup my cat likes to sleep on yarn. And it wasnt even really soft or anything. Actually he likes to sleep on the couch that the yarn was sitting on. So really the yarn was in the way. Goofy cat.

These are the finished hats for my cousins. The grey ones are matching hats for Andrew and Trystan (father and son). I had to remake Trystans on Christmas Eve because the one I made was too small. There are the 2 cupcake hats for the girls. I ended up adding a red pom-pom to each of them. And then the headband for April. The pattern I used was the braided band from Knitty's Coronet. April asked that I make it into a hat so I will follow the pattern and finish it.

This was my night of yarn dying. I frogged 2 sleeves from the sweater and thought I could fake some self-striping yarn. It worked almost ok. The colours werent quite what I wanted but what do you expect from Kool Aid?

I dyed it in the microwave, the way I did the other stuff last year. Worked pretty well. I did both sleeves the same way and then wrapped them around the chair wrapped in a towel to dry. You can kind of see the striping there. Almost.

So then I set out making a pair of mittens. Based on this pattern. As I said before the gauge was off by only 1/2 a stich. As you can see the mitt is way to small. The thumb joints match up on my hand and the mitt but it is way too small! So now I am making mostly the same pattern but with a slightly larger needle.

Whew! Spam is good. Must go, LOST is on.

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