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

  • Mittens

    Ugh! Another Crafty Monday post on a Tuesday. I’ve had a weekend. But don’t want to write about that right now. Right now I want to show you the mittens I knitted. They took me kind of forever to knit (for mittens anyway). They are the Pink Sonata mittens from the Fall 2008 issue of…

  • Crafty Monday: Jess

    I FINALLY finished Jess! Here she is! Yay! This was the Sweater That Would Never End. I started it at the end of August and I was so tempted so many times to just put it down. And I did do that a few times, being distracted by a few other projects. But I decided…

  • Crafty Monday: Another change of plans

    The last time I posted I was all excited about my current Soctoberfest project, a mystery sock knitted two at a time on two circs. well, the love didn’t last long. Honeymoon was over really fast on that project. The picture is the result of the tangled mess that came about. ugh. I reminded me…

  • A mystery sock

    It’s the beginning of October (and we’re already almost a week in at that!). For me that means it’s time forSocktoberfest! I wasn’t really feeling like participating this year. I looked at several sock patterns and just wasn’t feelin’ it. Then I read about a “Mystery Sock Pattern” (brought to us by “Through the Loops“)…

  • crafty distractions

      I received my held copy of Mason Dixon Knitting: Outside the lines from the library. Can I say? I love it. I think I need to buy it because I want to make lots of patterns from the book. I was immediately intrigued by a pattern they call the Cardi Cozy. It is a…