princessdeia

Apr 29 2005

Birthday Meme

Posted by Dee under General

Your Birthdate: October 31

Your birthday suggests that you are a good organizer and manager, an energetic and dependable worker; attributes often showing success in the business world.Serious and sincere, you have the patience and determination necessary to accomplish a great deal.

Your approach can be original, but often rigid and stubborn.

Sensitivity may be present, but feeling are likely to be repressed.

You are good with detail and insist on accuracy, but at times scatter energies.

You’re a practical thinker, but not without imagination.

You love travel and don’t like to live alone.

You should probably marry early, for responsibility is necessary for your stability.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

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Apr 28 2005

Beaded Bolero

Posted by Dee under General, Stash Enhancement, Sweaters

Lucky Sleeve With Lucky finished it is time to move on to my next project… after buying Rowan 35, I have been inspired to knit tons of projects with cotton. Hopefully, I will get on to knitting something from here soon at the moment Audrey is at the top of my list.

I also recently invested in some (more) Paton’s 100% Cotton, which is a great substitute for Rowan’s Cotton Glace. These four balls of cream are ear-marked for my sister’s beaded bolero.

I’m not really following a pattern, the basic design is the bolero from Vintage Knits, but I am making it with short sleeves, and then the two front panels will have the beaded pattern from the beaded sweater (image on the left).
I convinced my sister last night to thread the beads on the wool – I hate the tricky jobs… she used the clear nail vanish tip from SnBN which worked a treat

Tags: Beaded Bolero, Rowan, Sweaters, Vintage Knits

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Apr 26 2005

Problems with Comments

Posted by Dee under General

I have found out a few people have been trying to leave comments here and getting all sort of errors – or registering and never getting their password sent – it’s an problem with Wordpress and I am looking to resolve this soon.

In the mean time if you want to comment email me and I will register you – sorry about this

EDIT: I think this problem is now sorted – Sorry about the problems.

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Apr 26 2005

Finished – that is Lucky…

Posted by Dee under Finished Projects 2005, Sweaters

I have been unbelievable busy trying to get my pet project up and running, that I have been unable to update my journal…

However last weekend, Jason finally managed to take a few photos of me in Lucky Clover Lace Wrap. As I was trying it on, I realised I have sewn the neckband on wrong and the tie was on the right instead of the left – but being left handed I thought it was kinda apt that it was cack-handed – and so I left it. Well the honest truth was the sewing was all done with a wing and a pray that I doubt it would work again.

I knitted the smallest size and although, I didn’t constantly check my gauge, when I blocked the pieces they were the right size however the whole cardigan is a little larger than I was expecting, however, I think it will look great when teamed up with a dress.

Lucky Sleeve The close up here shows the inside tie and yet again shows it is on the wrong side… This is also a better photo than the one I took the other day as that was on my phone camera and this is with a decent camera. I was hoping to get a darker colored ribbon, but this lilac color looks good and I guess no one will see it.

Now I need to get started on my next creating. I am hooked 4-ply cotton, it is seems silly knitting With heavy wool in the summer, so I have planned a few summer cotton projects.

First I am knitting my sister a cream borelo with gold beads – it’s a cross between two patterns in Vintage Knits the bolero and beaded sweater that both have the same gauge.

After that I am planning a little delicate sweater for myself, I was hoping to get it ready for the end of May as I have a naming day to go to and I thought I could wear one of my projects with pride – but it looks like I don’t have enough time.

Tags: Finished Project, KAL, Lucky, Stitch n Bitch, Sweaters

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Apr 15 2005

Lucky Progress Report.

Posted by Dee under Sweaters

Lucky Sleeve Last weekend, I managed to get back to knitting my Lucky Wrap, now I had all the wool and the time. I managed to finished both sleeves over the weekend.

Having put in so much work making this baby – she has become like my little child over the past few weeks, I was determined to make this wrap entirely mine, I bit the bullet and forced myself to sew.

Lucky Belt Once the sleeves were finished it was then time to begin the mammoth task of the belt/collar thingy, 62.5 inches – that is almost as tall as me.

Knitting 13 stitches in rib is a pretty boring task so I decided to start seaming the other parts as well, to mix it up a little. I would knit 10 inches and then join the arm to the back… and finally, I finished the 62.5 inches and measure it up against the cardigan to find out it was too short, I actually ended up knitting closer to 70 inches for the belt.

Lucky Finished Just to neaten it up I started to decrease a stitch on the outer edge on the last 13 rows so I ended up with a straight edge on the inside – even though it will be hidden. I guess that perfectionist in me reared her ugly head again.

Looking back now it was quite funny that I was so concerned about the knitting the collar as the biggest task ended up being weaving all the ends… I just didn’t realise how much wool I ended up using.

Lucky Close Up Unfortunately this morning, my efforts at photography are awful, but you can just about make out how amazing the front looks once the collar has been added.