a pretty pattern and good advice

February 3, 2014 by 4 Comments

While browsing the Internet for lovely crochet patterns, I came across a rug, which appears in Simply Crochet magazine.  I want to buy Issue #13 just for it!  Dunno where in my home it would go, but that’s OK, right?  It’s sooooo pretty!

The good advice is from Slugs on the Refrigerator, and it’s about lifelines in knitting.  What are lifelines, you ask?  They are a way to keep you from having to rip really far back in your knitting if you make a mistake.  Essentially, they save your sanity.  I will be doing this from now on in almost all of my knitting projects!  Click the link above to go to the blog and read the article for yourself and discover the benefits of making lifelines.

Well that’s all for today!  See you again soon!

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surprise appearance in “Inside Crochet”

January 30, 2014 by 30 Comments

A follower of NYAC’s facebook page alerted me today that I am in the 50th issue of “Inside Crochet!”

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I was astonished (not the least because I’d had no idea about it) and immediately bought the issue on my iPad.  Sure enough, there on page 6 was a small blurb about the as-we-go stripey blanket that was the focus of our first crochet along!  I’m sincerely honored.  There’s another CAL going on right now following the pattern (only it’s translated into Dutch), and I believe it’s #crochetalong2014 on Instagram.  The blog for that current Dutch CAL is here.

Of course I’m very excited to be in a magazine, but I do wish the magazine had contacted me first so that I could have given credit to Julie over at Little Woolie — her blanket was the inspiration for mine and they are, after all, pretty similar.  I almost feel like it’s cheating, being in the magazine when she’s not given credit.  Well, she’s getting credit here; her blanket is amazing and she’s a great inspiration (she’s also a really nice person!).

Well, that’s my fun announcement for the day.  I haven’t been crocheting or knitting at all in the past week so there’s nothing else really going on, but hopefully there will be soon.  I’ve actually written up a new little Spring pattern that I will be sharing in the near future!  Hope to see you back soon!

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been busy — hats!

January 15, 2014 by 18 Comments

Hello everyone!  I hope you’ve all been doing well.  I apologize for my little break in blogging — I’ve just been so caught up in some positive changes at work!  I do have some finished projects to share with you though, so here we go!

baby hat 2 for annaThis is a baby hat made for my coworker Anna — she’s having a baby in February and we’re having a shower for her this Friday!  This was done using KnitPicks Brava Bulky yarn and I used this hat pattern, which has different sizes available for any person’s head!

baby hat 1 for annaThis second baby hat is a highly improvised version of a design.  I don’t really like how it turned out but it does function the way I wanted it to — it’s really stretchy and can be rolled down to make it longer when Anna’s baby gets a bit bigger!  The yarn used for this one was I Love This Cotton by Hobby Lobby.

hat for uncle bruceThis is the third Giftie Slouchie Beanie I’ve made (they only take a few hours), and it’s for my Uncle Bruce, who has recently discovered that he has cancer.  It seems serious, but I haven’t been able to see him because he lives in Arkansas (which is a really long drive and I shouldn’t be taking off work yet, since I’m still a relatively new employee).  My parents have seen him and they said that he might like a hat to keep his head warm, since he’s losing some hair.  This hat was made with Berroco Vintage Chunky.

When my parents were in Arkansas recently, they also visited my Dad’s parents, who were incredibly generous and gave me this:

pianoIt’s an old Estey piano, and I believe my great-grandma bought it.  Now it just needs to be tuned!  I’m so happy to have a piano in my home — I took lessons for a long time when I aws younger and have started to miss playing.

That’s all for right now — there might be some big news coming, but we’ll have to wait and see for that!  Let me know how you all are doing since it’s been a while!

 

 

 

 

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a look back on 2013 here on NYAC

December 29, 2013 by 7 Comments

Those were most of my completed crocheted and knitted projects from 2013.  Here’s what’s happened in our household this year:

It’s fun to look back and see what happened in the last year, both here on my blog and also on other people’s blogs!  I love these yearly roundups.

That’s all for now, see you soon!

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Nara mitts complete

December 27, 2013 by 4 Comments

How did everyone’s Christmas go?  I hope you all had a lovely and safe time.  Chris and I certainly did — we visited our families over a couple of days and vastly enjoyed the delicious food and the company of our loved ones!

A while back I saw a collection of 4 beautiful patterns on Ravelry called the Nara set, which includes a hat, a cowl,  boot liners, and fingerless mittens.  The set of patterns costs money but I bought it because each item is absolutely gorgeous!  I made the mitts first:

nara mitts 3A coworker of mine has constantly cold hands and she has to have her hands exposed most of the time to type.  She commissioned me to make her some fingerless gloves, and she wanted something either brown or purple.  The brownish-purple yarn here is Malabrigo’s Arroyo sport weight yarn (100% merino) in the colorway Coffee Toffee, and I already had it in my stash, so it was the perfect choice.

nara mitts 2I hope my coworker likes them — they did take a while to make and I really like them myself.  They were my first pair of knitted mitts/gloves and the thumb bit wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be.

nara mitts 1They’re also really comfortable!  Not too tight and not too loose.  They have room to stretch for larger hands.

Oh and they only took 38 grams out of the 100 gram ball, so I can make another pair if I like!

Well that’s all for today.  Thanks for stopping by!  I’ll probably have an update on another project soon — my yarn for the Hunger Games hat that I mentioned in my last post has arrived and I can’t wait to get started!

 

 

 

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