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Beauty rich and rare

March 2nd, 2006 by Crumpet

knitting olympics gold medal

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She shoots, she scores!

February 26th, 2006 by Crumpet

Here we go with an extraordinarily image heavy post…

Today, this happened.

totally finished mariah!

That’s knitted, ends woven in, seamed, blocked and zipperified in 16 days. I get gold!

16 days of blood (well, maybe not blood), sweat (so much sweat, so much knitting in only my underwear — after my little brother had gone home anyway), tears, houseguests, stocktake, enormous work hours, uni orientation, an extra day of uni orientation, a Tegan and Sara gig and a Steinbecks gig.

Yesterday, this happened.

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Woman vs Machine

February 25th, 2006 by Crumpet

A quick question for Jodi, if yr reading… I’ve never sewn a zipper into my knitting before — when you did so for Mariah, did you hand sew or use a machine?

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All seamed up with blocking to go…

February 25th, 2006 by Crumpet

i love this cardigan

I suggest staring at the lovely cardigan to avoid the horrors of my paleness and eye-bags.

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I can smell both victory and failure.

February 25th, 2006 by Crumpet

knitting done

I know the photo’s a bit out of focus, but that happens when you knit for hours at a time. Thank bob the knitting part is done, because my wrists and hands are close to giving out. Today I need to seam and block, then tomorrow I sew in the zipper. A little birdy told me that I might have some surprise busy-ness today, so this could still go either way…

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Baby got back.

February 20th, 2006 by Crumpet

And one front.

mariah back and front pieces

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Over the sleeve hurdle

February 17th, 2006 by Crumpet

I’ve been meaning to post for several days now — I keep taking photos of my Olympic Knitting progress, only to decide that I really needed to knit during the time I’d spend on blogging. (more…)

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