Pattern: By Whitney Van Nes. Made For: My coworker, Jen’s, first son: Lucas Thomas, born January 20, 2010. Needle: US13 & US15 Yarn: Spud & Chloë “Outer” in soapstone, and S.R. Kertzer “Northern Worsted” in cool blue Completed: January 7, 2010 Spud & Chloë yarn is so soft and wonderful — it was a delight [...]
Hey, I got a new tattoo. It’s very itchy today (but I’m not scratching!). Stuart recently began apprenticing at Tough Love Studio in south Minneapolis. He needed some victims volunteers to begin his new adventure in tattooing, so I said “sure.” I found an image of a bison cave drawing through Google, and Stuart worked [...]
I am seriously delinquent in reporting this, since I meant to post it after Karyn’s baby shower. Whatchagonnado? Pattern: By Kristin Goedert, available on Knitty. Made For: My future niece or nephew, due to arrive April 6th! Needle: US7 Yarn: Cleckheaton Country 8 Ply (10 skeins in various colors) and Cleckheaton Country Naturals 8 Ply [...]
My friend, Kelsey, and her family were in Minneapolis (technically Bloomington) over the weekend for the Mall of America’s Knit Out and Crochet 2008 event. I joined them Sunday morning to check out the festivities, get some free stuff, and be inspired by other crafters. (Clicking on that last image will show you everything I [...]
The 2nd annual Art Sled Rally took place yesterday in Powderhorn Park. I attended with the intention of rooting on Team Premium, but all of the sleds were so awesome that I had to root for everyone! Team Premium did have one of the best crashes of the day, however: This was one of the [...]
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