Archive for the 'NaKniSweMo' Category

Bloomed like a field of flowers, it did

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

So. Don’t hate me, NaKniSweMo’ers, but this social recluse thing has paid off. All knitted save the button band and collar! I was feeling impatient, so I put the collar stitches and bottom edge stitches on cotton waste yarn and threw the whole shebang in the washer with some Soak.
Oh yes. You heard me. The [...]

NaKniSweMo speed demon!

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Blurry, ’cause I’m knitting so fast. Well, I cast on for NaKniSweMo and promptly became a crazy social recluse. Swatching on Halloween (here, kids, just take some candy from the bowl, Shannon’s counting), staying up an extra hour (thanks, daylight savings!), avoiding family and friends over the weekend… but if I can pull off this [...]

Official NaKniSweMo 2008 sweater is here!

Friday, October 31st, 2008

You saw it earlier here. Here’s the pattern page on Ravelry, and you can purchase it in my Ravelry store here.
(See thread in the discussion group here).
If you’re not on Ravelry — and for heaven’s sake, why not? — email me (admin @ this domain) and I will send you a PayPal invoice. [...]

The Official NaKniSweMo 2008 sweater

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

(cross-posted to this Ravelry group topic)
The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here…almost.
Here is a photo of the official NaKniSweMo 2008 sweater. The pattern will be coming out later today or tomorrow, and it will be for sale on Ravelry (look in my Rav pattern store), in the Knitgrrl pattern shop and inside this [...]

Daily dose of dachshund cute + NaKniSweMo

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Attention NaKniSweMo knitters! November is nearly here, and it is time to start narrowing down your sweater choices! One of my sweater design class students is coming to model her finished sweater tomorrow with her two basset hounds. I will be writing a full pattern based on her design and we will be selling it [...]

THIRD Annual NaKniSweMo is coming up

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

And, as per usual, I’m going to point you to last year’s post for more, including trackbacks and what people had to say about last year, as well as the NaKniSweMo category here.
How it works with NaNoWriMo: write a 50,000-word novel in a month. As they said on previous versions of that page: “This is [...]

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