Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Knitting

  • Crafty Monday: Chickami Tank

    I made another Chickami! Why, you ask? I’ll tell you! I was going through my shelves of sweaters, doing my yearly washing and putting away of the wintery ones, when I came across my Apricot Jacket. Remember that thing? I have a love/hate relationship with it. I absolutely adored knitting it. But I hated the…

  • Crafty Monday: Unripened Nanner Socks!

    I finally have a finished object to share! Actually these were finished a couple of weeks ago but I haven’t had much time to post. This summer has been INSANELY busy. They are the Nanner Socks. Pattern by Wendy Johnson. I came across Wendy on Plurk way back in the beginning of June. Since Wendy…

  • Plurkette Hencircle

    I am now a member of the Plurkette Hencircle Hmm…how to explain this. Let me start from the beginning. In the beginning (of June) I joined Plurk. I found it to be a wonderful thing. A total time-suck but very fun. I have met all kinds of wonderful people of all sorts in the few…

  • a day behind

    There’s a Ladybug on my sock, originally uploaded by CraftyMoni. I didn’t get this up yesterday but here it is today. I had a visitor helping me while I was taking pictures of my finished sock :). Hope you all have a great weekend! I’m look at three days off. ahhh.

  • Crafty Monday: a couple ‘o bags

    Somewhere around May 6th or 7th this thought popped into my head: “oh shit! Mother’s day is coming up this weekend!” So I scrambled to figure out what to do about this. My biggest dilemma was figuring out what to get for my mother in-law since I would have to send it to her. I…