something geek-tastic...

so, there's this show i like, maybe you watch it too:first season was better, but second season had some truly shining gems. such as:



and as you know, i love all things geeky! so i couldn't resist making this for my honey!

don't tell anyone, but i'm much more partial to the wars than the trek. actually, tell everyone. obi-wan could take picard any day! there, i said it! come at me!

*cough* anyway... just wanted to share with the world! (maybe soon i'll make one for the paintball episodes! how could you not love abed as han...:D )

tickle me bender!

during all those fabulous snow days where i was a captive of my own apartment, i made a plush softy toy, something i've been wanting to try for quite a while!

so here he is, in all his glory:
made of fleece, dmc embroidery floss, stuffing, and cardboard!

and, for even more geek fablosity, he loves my jayne hat too :)may the geek be with you! fangirls unite!

*dramatic entrance*

with doves...

anyway, hello blogland! it has been even longer than usual... i got swallowed up by the snow, and then by the abyss known as undergraduate education. but now i make a dramatic comeback into the summertime!

and here's what i've done since i last posted (with ravelry links):

i finished those thigh highs! (by which i mean, they're bound off, now i have ends to weave in...and i don't have a more current picture...)

and i made a fantastic vest!americano pattern using rowan lima

i made a bunch of scarves,chastain park shawl in manos maxima for zoom's birtday

saxon braid scarf in katmandu aran for my loving bf

riding hood scarf in amy butler aran

firefly scarf in noro king

and hats,fooofoo beret in fresco (with a jack-cat)

sideways grande cloche in sandstone for zoom's birthday too!

cable brim slouch hat in kumara (with a dinosaur buttion!!!)

an early morning beret in donegal tweed (with a needle-felted octopus!)

including one of my own design! (check back soon for the pattern!)
entitled TBL, out of blue sky sprotweight

oh, and this ear-warmer thingy!made out of manos, also for zoom's birthday. and i definitely need to make one for myself for this winter!

and i made a big wrap/shawl/scarf for the trip to syria that was called off on account of revolution.sunshine wrap in amy butler dk, modeled and blocked by my fantastic mother!

Happy summer blogland! sorry i've been absent for so long!

more snow! and some fun links!

my internet has been spotty the past few days from all the snow we've gotten in fayetteville, but i've managed to grab some here and there to put this post together!

i've been using my phone to browse the internet, and Gayle just shared this link to Rachel Denbow's blog with me! doesn't this look like so much fun!? maybe it'll help me get over my fear of sewing machines, and i'll be able to make some super cute stuff from it!
and as you can probably tell, i've been itching to pick up my embroidery again! maybe i'll have something fun to post soon ;)

and speaking of something to post soon.... i'm working on a tutorial for casting on two-at-a-time top-down socks! a cast on that's perfect for something like this:

that's right, blogland, these are toe-less and heel-less socks (and as soon as i try out top-down two-at-a-time socks with a cuff, i'll post about that too)! because, why would you make socks this gorgeously long just one at a time, on double points?

ravelry link, from this fantastic pattern book

and scout's honor, this tutorial is coming soon!


also, has anyone tried out this site? it kinda seems like a more general ravelry, but i can't quite get the hang of how it works. do any of you use this? do you like it?

i'm so enjoying all this extra crafting/knitting/gaming time, it's truly wonderful. just like winter break part 2!

stay safe out there, blogland, it's a dangerous world.

snow, teddy bears, and lovely things

it snowed while chris and i were in conway a few weeks ago, and we couldn't resist! chris is wearing the turn-a-square hat, and the snowman is rocking a sweet leaf-tie! and then it snowed again last week here in fayetteville. but that day we just stayed in and drank cocoa and played video games.i made some simple socks for anna using opal's harry potter yarn in the malfoy colorway:
and here's a little bear for Baby Maybe Marriott, who seems due any day now! the pattern is Susan B. Anderson's (i adore her patterns!), and regia silk sock yarn. it ended up taking just a little over one skein, definitely not what the pattern calls for, so i'm not entirely sure what's up with that...but i love how he turned out!i've decided that, with all the fluff that i have left over from Izzy's giraffe and Maybe's bear, i want to keep making stuffed animals until i run out of fluff!

anyone out there on the internet care to teach me to crochet?

credit: lucyravenscar @ etsy

or how to sew something so cute as this:credit: talkproof @ etsy

or someone who's just dying to buy me one ;)

and i think i might pick up this months' copy of Stuffed Magazine, as talkproof is featured on the cover!
cheers, blogland!
<3 Kstitch

2010: a year of travel

I was fortunate to travel a lot of fun this year. I went someplace every month! Even if it was a few hours away to the beach or to my Grandparents house, I was a traveling fool. A handful of favorites from the year:

Best way to end the year:

Best big city weekend:

Best campus visit and sister time:

Best lake to visit multiple times during the summer:

Best historic 2 hour tour:

Best spring renewal at the beach:

2010: a year of knitting

i was looking through my ravelry projects, and i realized that, since starting this blog and starting work at Hand Held, my knitting has increased exponentially since mum first taught me how.

so here's a mash-up of this past year (in order of when ravelry says i started the project):

preemie hats, fair-isle hat for chris, 1st fingerless gloves, wide rib hoodie, welted fingerless gloves, ribbed lace bolero for the shop, giraffe for izzy, hoodwink for gayle, turkish bed socks (and pairs for aunt nancy, jacob, and chris' mom), mermaid scarf for anna, linen stitch scarf for mum, autumn phoenix fair isle hat, 1st toe-up socks, luna's moonlight socks, turn a square hat for chris, green lantern socks for hunter, reversible biking hat for dad, jayen hat, r2d2 hat, hermione's cable and eyelet fingerless gloves

i'm not sure if this is everything, or if i've forgotten something, but it all looks pretty good to me!

crafty highlights of 2010:
~starting work at Hand Held in may!
~making my first sweater!
~making a giraffe for izzy
~learning how to do socks, and in two different ways (in a week or so i hope to figure out a third!)!
~entering the sublime stitching embroidery contest
~designing my own fair-isle pattern
~cultivated the ability to knit and read at the same time

2011 crafting goals:
~take better pictures with my new nikon coolpix L110 (it's my baby!)
~take pictures of things on people, not just take awkward pictures of myself trying to model and photograph at the same time
~embroider more
~work my way through the Joy of Sox by Linda Kopp

happy 2011, blogland, and happy crafting!
<3 K-stitch