MUSICIAN MITTS
size 11s, chunky yarn
CO 15 and work 5 rows in k1 p1
Next row; k2, inc 1 – 20 sts
work 12 rows of stockinette
switch to size 10, and work 3 rows in k1p1 rib
bind off
sew together 3 rows from the top and 5 and a half from the bottom

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Thrummed Hearts Hat

I love the thicker, nubbier texture created by simply slipping a stitch.

 

Thrummed Hearts Hat
(tentative pattern)
Notes;
-The numbers in the pattern do not stand for row numbers.
-This pattern is for the look of the cranberry-colored hat, with the main color making up most of the hat.
- The first time you switch to yarn B at step [...]

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Miss Austen’s Modern Shawlette

I’ve always loved Jane Austen. I know it’s cliche, but I also don’t care. I’ve been inspired by the beautiful clothing the women of her time wore.
It’s a shawl, but not quite.

It can be elegant.

Or urban.

But always fun.

In cool, natural cotton, I know I will wear this a lot.
In reality, I am a very practical, [...]

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Postcards from Beirut

I basically love this band.

April 10 at the Electric Factory was pure hedonistic bliss. I felt like I really did escape to Beirut, or some far away place I’ve never been so that I could still imagine it was paradise.
Thanks to michael alan goldberg’s photo on flickr! His photography is phenomenal.

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Why You Shouldn’t Major in Music

If there is anything I have learned in college, it is this;
The music education major is a monster that attacks by surprise. At first, it seems like a manageable beast, encouraged by friends and family who fawn over your (often mediocre) musical abilities. And then, once it’s sure you’ve swallowed the bait, it devours your [...]

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Mrs. Darcy’s Cardigan

I’m so thrilled.

I was drinking coffee, as always.

I used recycled buttons from an old sweater. They are kindof beat up, but it goes with the theme, in a way.

The only adjustment I made to the pattern is that I knit it in a single huge skein of Bernat Super Saver Solids, which changed the gauge [...]

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secretly

I wish more than anything else I could go here.

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Edmund the Owl

Edmund’s body is worked in the round on double-pointed needles, His eyes, wings, ears, and beak are made separately and stitched on later.
Materials
120 yards of worsted weight yarn, brown in color, (I just used some scrap yarn, lion wool possibly)
size 8 double-pointed needles
size 8 straight needles
fiberfill
tapestry needle
sewing needle
stitch marker
felt (cream colored and black colored)
Thread (cream [...]

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Strapping Young Lad Bag

Strapping Young Lad Bag

Materials
2 skeins Paton’s Shetland Chunky Tweed
Size 10.5 straight needles
Tapestry needle
A fat quarter of fabric for lining
2 leather buttons
2 snap closures
sewing needle and brown thread
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Pattern
Body
-Cast on 36 stitches
-Work in seed stitch until piece measures 17.5 inches. (weird number, I know)
-Cast off.
Flap
-Pick up 30 stitches alongside one of the shorter sides of the body [...]

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Mr. Verde, the frog

Mr. Verde the Frog

Materials;
- skien lion wool in a green color (any scrap worsted weight would work too)
-size 8 double-pointed needles
-black eye buttons or beads
-black fabric paint
-1 sheet yellow felt
-small amount of fiberfill
-tapestry needle
-sewing needle & matching thread
Body
CO 3 sts and join into round
Increase each stitch around (6 sts)
Knit round
Repeat first round (12 sts)
Knit round
Repeat [...]

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