I spent a marvelous evening with the lovely ladies of In Stitches, the Hull and surrounding areas knitting group. We consumed drinks and cakes, talked about knitting and mocked some delightfully 1980s era animal motif jumpers. I did a few repeats on my portable WiP, a Ravenclaw PoA style scarf and then got down to [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Works in Progress
June 25, 2006 – 4:29 pm
Yesterday saw me rooting around in the depths of Boyes for fabric. I managed to avoid the bead section in the process because contrary to popular opinion, I do possess an ounce of willpower. …besides, I cannibalised two old necklaces found while doing a massive ‘sort and throw’ on three years worth of pre-university junk. [...]
Stitchmarkers
June 25, 2006 – 3:27 pm
On the basis that everyone is entitled to a little pretentiousness some of the time, I have decided to name my stitchmarkers Aggressive! Terribly Flash Purple glass. The good kind. Mother Nature (Because it’s sort of like storms and nature and blue and green skies and… and it’s probably a good thing I never did [...]
Leafy convertible by Jam
June 24, 2006 – 8:12 pm
So my cousin is having a baby and my mum and I decided to do something for the baby and something for her (it probably being a bit of a letdown, opening giftwrapped packages only to find that the gift inside is meant for someone several years away from appreciating it). Together, we made the [...]
Beads, glorious beads!
June 22, 2006 – 2:55 pm
My newest crafty addiction is beadwork. I’ve just invested in a box with many compartments and spent a happy couple of hours sorting beads by colour. That is my Bead Box. I think — no, actually, I know — that it harbours thoughts of world domination. They’re so shiny. So addictive. So…crack cocaine like! I [...]
Finished Object: Anthropologie-inspired Capelet
June 21, 2006 – 12:30 pm
From the files of recently FO’s I bring you the Anthropologie-inspired capelet. I fell for this one’s stitch detail – even though they’re just yarn overs, they look complicated and make people go ‘oooo!’. It looks a bit like a baby cardi there, I know but that’s just the way I had it laid out. [...]
Shadow/Illusion knitting, what I did and how to make your own, by Jam
June 21, 2006 – 10:00 am
This was the first thing I ever made which I designed myself. The design is based on the Batman Beyond logo. I relied heavily on Louise for helping me getting the design on to paper and general advice. Shadow knitting: General notes, how to design your own and my original design.
Hello World!
June 20, 2006 – 1:39 pm
Welcome to Spacecrafty, the shared Craft blog of Meg and Jam. You can find out more about us by clicking the ‘about us’ page but sufficient to say that we’re both crafty and geeky and looking forward to joining the two in the heady world of crafty blogging.