Category: Knitting

The Knitting Work of Heather Classen

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Caprica 6 Bag for the ravelry.com BSG FPB game

I never felted (fulled) anything before, so I jumped in feet first and did a big complicated color swapping bag for the Battlestar Galactica Fleet Power Battle at ravelry.com.
I started in the beginning of July and have worked on it for two rounds of the game. Here’s the progress in photos…

 

 

So, hopefully this weekend I’ll get the strap done and toss it in the washer to shrink it. It’s been a lot of work… really hoping the washer doesn’t chew this up and spit it out.

The chart I used to do the basestars, and two others I threw together ‘cuz it might be helpful for someone else are here. I love the idea that the basestars make a nice geometric pattern all lined up like that, I’d like to see what other people might do with it.

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Cavil’s Headphone Sleeve

Cavil seems to handle stress well: ”Let me point out that it doesn’t matter if we find Earth in five days, or if we find Earth in five thousand years. We’re machines. We’ll still be around to savor the great miracle. So let them destroy the Eye, if indeed they have it. We have to take advantage of the situation and take down Galactica once and for all… or we could stand here and do nothing.”

His stress relieving secret is his pink Ibiza mp3 player, he just needs some cozy sleeves to keep the frakkin’ headphones from getting tangled up everytime Boomer borrows ‘em.

Using the leftover Noro from Tori’s Toastie Airlock Socks, I’m casting this on today for the ravelry BSG Fleet Power Battle… ‘cuz for nuthin’ else, it’s getting me to finish knitting projects.

“Ah… blessed unentanglement… stupid weak skin and bones, if the creators could’ve added an internal mp3 player like the centurians have, but noooooo, I’m stuck listening to my show tunes with this awkward technology. Thank heaven I can knit!” – Cavil (from scenes on the cutting room floor)

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Tori’s Toastie Airlock Socks

Keeping your feet toaster warm while you’re airlocking your colleagues.

The beginning of my first project for the BSG FPB game at ravelry.com.

I’m using the colorway starting from both ends. To do this I wound the yarn, finding two repetitions of the colorway and winding into 2 balls of yarn. And then turning each of those balls of yarn into two more, starting at end, and starting at the beginning, to make the color stripes go up and down the sock.

Knitting in the round, for the FTL challenge. First time I’ve used Noro.

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Aunt Patty’s Hat

Found some lovely soft yarn (forgot the name, unfortunately) and made my aunt a hat. She used to crochet me all sorts of things when I was little, so I figured it was time to knit her something. Oranges and reds are her colors, and the colorway was perfect for this type of simple rib stitch hat.

Hat for Aunt Patty
Hat for Aunt Patty
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Trinii’s faux denim duster

Solo by Kim Hargreaves, looks like a lil denim jacket, ‘cept I made it longer so it worked like a duster, and I could add some cables at the bottom. My niece grew out of this so fast, but I really like the blue denim color, so it was all worth it. Also, I learned later that I should have put some ribbon or tape on the inside of the button band to make it lie flat. It really curled back as you can see in the picture. I wish I got a better photo of the modified pattern at the time, but she’s such a cutie that makes up for it.

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Retro-post… to mark when I joined Ravelry

I joined ravelry on September 23, 2007. As I move my blog to wordpress (April 2012) I am looking back at how my knitting work has changed for the better, simply by joining up and sharing ideas and inspiration with all the great ravelers (& now friends).

So if you arrived at this post by searching on the “knitting” keyword look at how crappy the stuff that came before this point was compared to the work that came after.

Before:

Early Knit Hat Scarf 2004
Early Knit Hat Scarf 2004

After:

Vivian Sweater
Vivian Sweater

(like, seriously…)

Thanks Ravelry. Truly.

 

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Knitters Without Cats

I just set up this simple page which will feature knitting work posted on flickr.com, by fellow knitters without cats. Knitters Without Cats.

Anyone without a cat can go to flickr.com and post to the group there, and the images will show at the googlepage. I’ve got a corresponding store at Cafepress as well.

Knitters Without Cats
Knitters Without Cats

Update: April 2012 Tagging your photos “knitterswithoutcats” and “kwoc” on flickr.com and ravelry.com is the way to go. Plus I set up a group on Ravelry for us. We tend not to have too much to talk about as that which unites us is that which we don’t want to mention, so the groups and tags are all about surfing project photos without cats lolling (pun intended) about out them. 😉