Posted by Underground Crafter on December 25, 2012 |
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Although I’ve been a Ravelry member since December, 2007, I barely used it until 2011. Last year, I finally started to browse Ravelry regularly for pattern searches and began to participate in several groups. My Rav goal for 2012 was to use the notebook to track all of my projects. Adding projects (and even taking [...]
Tags: 2012 year in review, a hat fit for a fella, all weather cowl, basic granny square, beanie, bruges crochet, cables, caitlin ffrench, crochet, eyelet ripple infinity scarf, freshstitches, geaux saints, givin' me fever pom pom hat, granny square, julie a bolduc, knitting, magic loop, new orleans saints, pam daley, pilates peds, ravelry, ravelry stash feature, sandworm's journey beanie, shana kreikemeier, sparkling wave scarf, tatyana mirer, terribly simple, visit to the kantcentrum
Posted by Underground Crafter on December 7, 2012 |
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I actually finished this hat a few weeks ago, but I had to keep it secret until the pattern was released. You can download the free pattern for the Givin’ Me Fever Pom Pom hat here on Kollabora. If you haven’t already checked out Kollabora, you should . It’s a newish maker community with a focus [...]
Tags: beanie, fever, FO Friday, givin' me fever pom pom hat, knitting, kollabora, kollabora let's shag, kollabora like a rolling stone, peggy lee, secret project, tami's amis
Posted by Underground Crafter on October 12, 2012 |
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I’m excited to be participating in another I Love Yarn Day on my blog! To celebrate, I’m sharing some charity projects and showing off some of my recent yarn acquisitions. Finished charity projects I’ve been working on some charity projects with stash yarn for the Hats 4 the Homeless drive at the Lion Brand Yarn Studio. [...]
Tags: 2012 holiday stashdown challenge, beanie, blogtoberfest 2012, bridge and beyond project, bruges crochet, charity, crochet, curly pops, downtown yarns, dream in color, dream in color everlasting sock, FO Friday, freshstitches, frugally sustainable, hats 4 the homeless, i love yarn day, i saw you dancing, ivy brambles, ivy brambles hand dyed merino roving, ivy brambles romantica merino lace, knitter's pride, knitty city, lion brand yarn studio, madelinetosh, madelinetosh tosh vintage, miss babs, miss babs yowza-whatta skein!, new york city yarn crawl, north jersey fiber arts festival, nyc yarn crawl 2012, ravelry stash feature, roving, studio donegal, studio donegal soft donegal, surmount the stash 2012, tami's amis, the yarn company, visit to the kantcentrum, yarn, yarn crawl, yarn monkey productions, yarn monkey productions supersaki
Posted by Underground Crafter on September 12, 2012 |
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It’s been almost 6 weeks since I last participated in Work in Progress Wednesday and Yarn Along. Life got very busy and I was mostly working on secret projects, so there was nothing too exciting to share. I’m happy to be back with a (very) little something and am looking forward to checking out what [...]
Tags: 2012 holiday stashdown challenge, beanie, cables, frankenstein, how to love your job or find a new one, joanna penn, kindle fire, knitting, mary shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, reading, robyn chachula, small things, tami's amis, the last man, wip wednesday, wips, wipw, yarn along
Posted by Underground Crafter on September 11, 2012 |
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(Join along with me any time if you need a head start or moral support for your holiday crafting. You can read more details here.) Although I didn’t exactly follow my holiday crafting schedule, I was able to keep up my pace of one project a week. I’ve also started two other projects, a cabled hat [...]
Tags: 2012 holiday stashdown challenge, beanie, bruges crochet, cables, crochet, holiday crafting, knitting, scarf, surmount the stash 2012
Posted by Underground Crafter on September 3, 2012 |
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This month seemed to go by in a blur with all that was happening at work and home, so I honestly have no idea how I did with stash this month! Let’s see… My accomplishments I made a Bruges lace scarf with a skein of super cool stash yarn. I made a bathroom rug with [...]
Tags: a swap a month, araucania, araucania ranco, beanie, bruges crochet, cascade 220 superwash, cascade yarns, destash, knitty city, ravellenic games, ravellenic games hat dash, ravellenic games holiday hurdles, ravellenic games home stuff hammerthrow, ravellenic games synchronized stash busting, surmount the stash 2012, yarn, yarn swap
Posted by Underground Crafter on August 28, 2012 |
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(Join along with me any time if you need a head start or moral support for your holiday crafting. You can read more details here.) I was feeling really good about my Holiday Stashdown progress last week, when I somehow completed an entire gift in one day. But then I happened to look at a calendar. [...]
Tags: 2012 holiday stashdown challenge, beanie, bruges crochet, cascade 220 superwash, cascade yarns, crochet, galler yarns, hexagon, hirten-tweed, holiday crafting, house slippers, knitting, laura garsten, no two snowflakes nancy's hair, philadelphia, pineapple doily shawl, ribbing, robyn chachula, scarf, slipper soles, surmount the stash 2012
Posted by Underground Crafter on July 20, 2012 |
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I got a lot of knitting done during jury duty this week. (No, I wasn’t on a trial, just sitting in an air conditioned waiting room for a while and then the last juror in the selection room for a longer while so it was obvious I wasn’t ever going to get questioned.) I finished [...]
Tags: 2012 holiday stashdown challenge, beanie, circular knitting, circular needles, FO Friday, knitting, lion brand, lion brand wool ease thick and quick, moda dea, moda dea tweedle dee, ribbing, surmount the stash 2012, tami's amis
Posted by Underground Crafter on July 18, 2012 |
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Yesterday was one of those days that reminded me of the Lovin’ Spoonful‘s “Summer in the City.” I won’t even tell you what the back of my neck was like, and when I sat down outside to take the one picture for today’s post, it was definitely hotter than a match head. It was just [...]
Tags: 2012 holiday stashdown challenge, beanie, destash, eugenics, h.g. wells, holiday crafting, knitting, lion brand, lion brand wool ease thick and quick, lovin' spoonful, margaret sanger, moda dea, moda dea tweedle dee, planned parenthood, reading, ribbing, small things, summer in the city, surmount the stash 2012, tami's amis, the country of the blind and other stories, wip wednesday, wips, wipw, yarn along
Posted by Underground Crafter on July 17, 2012 |
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(Join along with me any time if you need a head start or moral support for your holiday crafting. You can read more details here.) Although I sometimes wish more of my real life (or “face to face”) friends and family read my blog, on days like today, I’m glad they don’t. I’m pretty excited about [...]
Tags: 2012 holiday stashdown challenge, a hat fit for a fella, arrakis, beanie, bluebonnet, bruges crochet, cables, cascade 220 superwash, cascade yarns, christy hall, circular knitting, circular needles, crochet, edie eckman, ellen gormley, galler yarns, harvest, hexagon, hirten-tweed, holiday crafting, knitting, knitty city, lala the panda, laura garsten, lion brand, lion brand wool ease thick and quick, madelinetosh, madelinetosh tosh sport, malabrigo, malabrigo rios, moda dea, moda dea tweedle dee, motif 35, motif 54, motifs, nude ewe ron, pineapple doily shawl, ribbing, shana kreikemeier, sparkling wave scarf, stacey trock, surmount the stash 2012, tatyana mirer, the nude ewe, vintage hexagon christmas stocking