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Project 365, #230
Seaming lapghans. El Segundo, CA
Posted by bpod at Saturday ~ August 08, 2007 | No Comments
Project 365, #229
Making cakes. Culver City, CA
Posted by bpod at Friday ~ August 08, 2007 | No Comments
Project 365, #228
Whipping. Culver City, CA
Posted by bpod at Thursday ~ August 08, 2007 | No Comments
Project 365, #202
Yarn swap. El Segundo, CA
Posted by bpod at Saturday ~ July 07, 2007 | No Comments
Charity Square #5
While on my road trip to Texas, Ted and I shared the driving responsibilities. While he drove, I knit. Since we would be driving all day, I wanted to work on patterns that were easy to memorize and do in spurts. I’m still a bit behind on charity squares, so I decided to bring one of my giant balls of acrylic yarn and work on them during my passenger legs. This is a 4 x 4 basketweave stitch pattern, started earlier this morning and finished before dark. Woot!
ESSS Charity square - basketweave
Recipient: Royalwood Care Center
Completed: July, 2007
100% acrylic
Needles: US 7
Posted by bpod at Wednesday ~ July 07, 2007 | No Comments
Category: FOs, knit, road trip 2007, travel
Charity Square #4
Square #4 in the charity project, the second square from this skein of multi-colored TLC. I may be able to get one more square out of it; we’ll see. This is a very simple two-line pattern that’s scarcely more complicated than straight knitting and purling. And yet the slanted stitches just look so cool… it almost feels like cheating. The resulting fabric is quite dense: I bumped up from size 7 to size 11 needles for this worsted weight yarn and it’s still a bit thick. This stitch would be great to use for a bag handle or a nice warm scarf.
ESSS Charity square - herringbone
Recipient: Royalwood Care Center
Completed: June, 2007
TLC ultra soft / 100% acrylic
Needles: US 11
Posted by bpod at Sunday ~ June 06, 2007 | No Comments
Project 365, #167
Yarn of steel. El Segundo, CA
Posted by bpod at Saturday ~ June 06, 2007 | 1 Comment
Project 365, #166
Happy vegetable bag. Culver City, CA
Posted by bpod at Friday ~ June 06, 2007 | No Comments
Booga Bag for Evan
I first saw this pattern somewhere on-line quite a while ago. I liked the shape, envisioned lining it and using it as a lunch sack, thought about trying it…but for whatever reason it did not happen. * * *
Recipient: TBD
Completed: May, 2007
Noro / Kureyon
100% wool
Needles: US 8
I first heard of Allison when I joined the Stitch n’Bitch-LA Yahoo group (she was one of the moderators). There were a few other brief encounters along the way: I made a little SnB logo for the site and she was my contact; we met at a SnB meetup; I attended a UCLA hockey/knit event that she and her husband organized… We were members of the same local knitting community, but I really didn’t know much about her personally until I read this post in January over at Crazy Aunt Purl’s.
Here was a knitter who needed help, and the response from the community was strong. The word spread via e-mails and blog postings, and new customers flocked to Allison’s on-line store, supercrafty.com, contributing much-needed funds for her son’s surgery. I purchased this Booga Bag kit. Since she lives quite close, I arranged to pick up my purchase directly from her and got to meet Mr. Evan in person. He is as charming and delightful as he looks.
Five months passed and I finally got around to knitting the bag. The pattern was simple and easy to follow and the classic lunch bag shape is, well, cute. It’s Noro, so of course the colors are amazing and the yarn felted up beautifully. 
Blocking was easy, too, as the bag fit perfectly over a plastic-wrapped photo box (a squat shoe box would probably work, too).
Also during the past five months, Evan and his parents have been working to find a way for him to get the treatment he needs. With a very rare condition like his and surgery that is still considered “experimental,” it is not an easy road they tread. Allison also runs a business that comes to a standstill in the summer and her husband is a student at UCLA, so they could really use some positive cash flow around now. Here are a few ways you can help:
- Make a donation to Evan’s Brain Surgery fund
- Do some shopping at SuperCrafty.com
- Use Evan’s Search (www.auctionartists.com) to perform your Google searches
- Purchasing something at Amazon.com? Go to Allison’s blog and use the link in the sidebar
- Spread the word about Evan and forward these links to your friends
Looks like it’s time to pick up some more yarn for the Lizard Ridge project. How about you?
Posted by bpod at Tuesday ~ June 06, 2007 | No Comments
Charity Square #3
Square #3. Finally, a break from the giant ball of pink yarn. This was made from some yarn I had left over from my Latifa Scarf project (when I apparently bought enough yarn for two full scarves but only made one). The pattern is really more of a formula: cast on enough stitches for two sides of your square, decrease two stitches in the middle every other row, and voila–mitered square. Unfortunately, my gauge was off (read: I didn’t check my gauge), so the square ended up being 1/2 inch too large. But it’s a mitered square, so no problem! I just frogged the first few rows (along the long, two-sided edge), then bound off that edge. Easy peasy.
ESSS Charity square - miter
Recipient: Royalwood Care Center
Completed: June, 2007
TLC ultra soft / 100% acrylic
Needles: US 7
Posted by bpod at Tuesday ~ June 06, 2007 | No Comments
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