tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258902242012-01-08T19:10:50.564-05:00pixelated : 1 pertaining to a printed image which has been digitized; visible as a pattern of pixels; also written pixellated 2 bewildered, confused; slightly insane; also called pixilated knitting : 1 the action or method of one that knits 2 work done or being done by one that knitspixel knitshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924523461700829504noreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25890224.post-45234238308921462062012-01-08T18:25:00.004-05:002012-01-08T18:58:03.940-05:00

I'm not typically one for making New Year's resolutions. I'm easily distracted and generally lack the commitment necessary to make the changes worthwhile. I've been thinking though, that making a change in one area of my life might not be too challenging or overwhelming. While I'd like to say I'll lose weight, read more, go back to school, finish my knitting, etc... realistically I know this just

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I promise I shall not neglect my blog this year!I've actually been knitting quite a bit the past few months. That's not to say I've finished anything but I have been making an effort to keep knitting. It seems most of my time is eaten up with work and teaching. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent on other people's knitting.This year I will finish everything on my needles! Let the inventory

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I've started Spanish Peacock from A Gathering of Lace. It is one of the charts shown in the back of the book in the gallery section. This is really a pretty easy pattern. I'm using Addi Turbo US 7 Lace needles I moved my marker at the beginning of the rounds listed below to prevent the pattern from spiraling.Round 23: 1 stitch to the leftRound 24: 1 stitch to the leftRound 28: 2 stitches to the

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Oh yes, my packet arrived in the mail today! Now I just need to pick out some yarn and get started. I think I'll start with Galway and Cascade 220. I do have some beautiful Shepherd's Wool in creamsicle which probably isn't light enough, but is so soft to work with.

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I finally broke down and joined the Cult of Knitting. I'm not sure what it says about me that I really care how a small group of women will evaluate my knitting, but I'm pretty excited.

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Okay so I've updated my flickr and ravelry pages. That's enough for one night. I'll post a proper updated here soon. If you're really curious and can't wait you can type in pixelknits on ravelry and take a peak.

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So I'm going to be a knitting instructor. It was a strange interview, if one can call it that. The conversation went something like this:Me: Hi, this is pixelknits. I'm the girl who's working on the Sudoku Afghan and Tilting at Windmills and I'm interested in the Knitting Instructor position you postedA: Have you ever taught before?Me: Not professionally, just a few friends and children of my

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I have too many projects on the needles.Tonight it's Tilting at Windmills from Pat Ashforth and Steve Plummer at Woolly Thoughts. This is going to be an afghan for my boss who's due in mid-April.Can I just tell you how much I hate seaming! If anyone out there loves me, please come seam for me!!!

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Perhaps if I didn't spend so much time on Ravelry I'd actually get some knitting done.Projects:Panel 2 of Sudoku is almost finished. I only have nineteen rows left... What's taking me so long? Oh yeah.. That damn Ravelry.Three Cornered Shawl in Clover Leaf Pattern is still sleeping. I'm missing some stitches and because I'm stupid and don't believe in lifelines, it takes me about an hour to undo

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No posting tonight, I've got to make some headway on this damn Sudoku. My Ravelry queue is going to keep me busy enough for the next decade and I want to sketch my next double-knit project. I'm going to knit J a Notre Dame scarf. It's going to have the N/D logo on the ends and say IRISH in the middle and the flip side will have the leprechaun done in three colors. My lys has some beautiful Galway

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As promised in the Double Knitting group on Ravelry, here's the beginning of my Double Knitting Pictorial Tutorial.In the BeginningWhen I first embarked on my Sudoku project I thought about using nine different colors or nine different stitch patterns in place of the numbers. But as I started plotting my design I realized I was either going to have come up with a control pattern or color and

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Panel 2 is on the needles.Five rows downTwenty left.106 stitches x 20 rows = 2120 stitches left.That's depressing...

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I've charted out Panel 2 and will cast it on tomorrow. Perhaps I'll have it finished by Christmas???

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016Originally uploaded by tesalc

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Yesterday I cast on 624 stitches not once but twice. My mother and I went to Rosie's Yarn Cellar on Saturday where I bought some lovely Jaggerspun Zephyr in an aubergine color. I have about 2300+ yards to work on a shawl from Victorian Lace Today. I'm in love with the the Three-cornered shawl in clover pattern and am determined to knit it.The first time I used the loop cast-on as suggested in the

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I recently finished knitting the Bramble Leaf Scarf with French Trellis Border from Victorian Lace Today. Interesting stitch work and lots of fun to knit. I had never done a knit on border before and loved it.No. 10 Crochet Cotton - EcruSize 2 Needles.

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I finished Wrapped in Tradition - Disappointed, it's okay, everyone else liked it but not a pattern I would choose to do again.Victorian Lace Today - Amazing book! I want to knit it cover to cover. The best knitting book, not for beginners.Sudoku - Staring at me waiting for me to pick it up. Probably next week now that holidays and Secret Pal are over.Mercerized Crochet Cotton No 10 is my crack

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I'm starting Wrapped in Tradition from Wrap Style, because I like working on 80 billion projects at once! Of course I can't upload a photo right now... erg!If my brain will let me, I would like to make it a capelet instead of a poncho.eta

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Since I still haven't gotten around to picking up the skein of yarn I need to finish Clapotis, I've finally gotten around to Sudoku.To start I've decided to double knit it in order to keep it reversible. One side will be the unfinished board and the flip side will be finished. I'm constructing them in blocks of 3x3.Pics will follow soon as will a pattern, once I make it small enough.

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25 rows left and I ran out of the Karabella yarn I was using for Clapotis. Actually I don't think I ran out so much as I think I lost a skein, hard to say which is worse though. Of course since it's Labor Day I can't run out and buy some.What to do?

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Someone, please smack me. I'm 2/3 of the way through Clapotis and Saturday my mother and I went to Finely A Knitting Party where I bought two skeins of Lamb's Pride - worsted in Pine Shadows and Mulberry. Now I'm 7 inches into the Brioche Scarf from Weekend Knitting.Before the day is through I will post pictures!

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I found this link for knitting graph paper.Enter the number of sts and rows for a 4-inch square and it'll make graph paper for that gauge.

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I had the best of intentions. Really, I did. I went to Technicolor Sheep last night and looked high and low and found many lovely yarns I could have used for the Sudoku afghan. But no I bought some aurora melange 0019 by Karabella yarns instead. It feels so nice and I love the colors. I'm using it for Clapotis and so far it's knitting up quickly.I've decided Sudoku would be better served as a

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Wow! I had no idea there were people out there wanting to know more about my Sudoku Knitting. I guess I better actually get started on it. I've been busy looking for a new job, planning my wedding, and dealing with a flare-up of a nerve injury in my right arm.Another thought I had, and this one I've already started, is to do a Sudoku sampler. Using the same yarn, but different patterns

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Remember that beautiful sock yarn I bought, the same yarn I quickly came to detest? Well my mother bought the exact same yarn, in the exact same colorway. Perhaps I'll like what she makes with it more.For my birthday, her boyfriend bought me 2 skeins of Wildfoote Luxury Sock Yarn made by Brown Sheep Co in the Rock 'n Roll colorway- center. It feels lovely and the colors are so vivid. I love

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Well I finished one of my Sockotta socks and can't bring myself to start the second one. It's so boring. The colorway is blah, blah, blah... I hate it. I don't want to do it. I don't, I don't, I don't!

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Putting aside Sudoku for a moment... I was feeling a bit depressed yesterday, so when I asked if we could stop at a LYS James was more than willing. Lucky me, I was able to pick up a skein of Sockotta. When we left I was smiling and all was well with the world. So now I'm working on some socks on 4 size 2 dpns.

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I've been thinking alot about mathematical knitting after listening to Kay Gardner speak at Finely A Knitting Party, about log cabin knitting and reading about Fibonacci Sequence. I got to thinking about seemingly random patterns that are pleasing to the eye, but are in actuality quite planned. Like a Sudoku puzzle. I love these puzzles and wondered to myself if I couldn't just design an afghan

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So many ideas, textures, fibers, designs... I know there is not enough time in my life to actually knit everything I see. I sometimes wonder what will become of my stash upon my demise. I finish some projects and others remain on needles or worse, lengths of thread keeping my stitches in order. I try to limit myself to one project at a time or promise myself not to purchase another book or skein

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