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a stitch wrangler a stitch wrangler threads from the rich tapestry of life knitting family garden hobbies architecture photography and more thursday 18 august 2011 cute as baby anna had grown out of her gumnut hat see last photo so i handed over baby byz earlier than i was going to haven t had enough cuteness yet here s more the hat is based on byzantium which you can find in my ravelry projects here the design is very versatile any yarn any gauge here i ve done 2 x 2 rib sections of stocking stitch alternating with reverse stocking stitch x 4 three needle bind off at the top inside and soft tassels yarn was mondial bizzarre here is another version of baby byz modelled beautifully by a bucket heh this was in a finer yarn for a newer baby cleckheaton something 2 x 2 rib only two reverse stocking stitch sections it was a gift but i don t have photos of the recipient and here is anna with her gumnut baby hat made to match the baby wrap cardi both items came with her for her visit to australia from spokane i was honoured and flattered that they warranted inclusion in the luggage posted by susie m at 3 51 pm no comments labels baby byzantium family hat own design wednesday 28 may 2008 knitting there has been knitting part 1 it may not seem that way with many of my abc along posts not being knitterly related but there has been knitting for this post there is a top down in the round raglan jumper for jj he s modelling it here one of the beauties of top down is that the jumper can be tried on as i knit so far it s not too bad i will need to make sure the arms don t get too wide when i pick them up at the raglan end jj has slender arms i will knit the arms on circular needles too which will mean no seams the yarn is three different colourways of moda vera crave blue to black grey to black and green to black rather than just joining in a new colour i ve done a transitions stripe of 1 4 2 3 3 2 4 1 add this to the already colour changing nature of the yarn and the striping looks a lot more complicated than it is i have superimposed this row pattern on the close up photo above the photo below shows the bottom rib border which i finished after jj tried on the jumper and bonus jj says he likes it must finish it while it s still winter posted by susie m at 1 54 pm 1 comment labels abc along jj jumper knitting son transitions wednesday 21 may 2008 j is for jj here is my beautiful boy age about two he was a delight at every age although i had to work hard to stay connected during his teenage years watching rage together and playing the same computer games helped there s some more about him in the slide show below let me know if it doesn t work properly and here he is with his choc mudcake birthday cake with candles in march this year he s just turned 24 p s jj is not his name nor his initials it s the initials of one of his on line nicknames _ posted by susie m at 9 33 pm 3 comments labels abc along j jj photos son saturday 10 may 2008 i is for illusions it s not an optical illusion it just looks like one i have been fascinated by illusions and optical illusions since childhood please excuse the quality of the top photo it was taken forty years ago i was mucking about with school friends when i spotted the possibility here so the snap i didn t really have a schoolmate small enough to stand on a friend s hand three and a half decades later i m still at it playing with illusions in photo compositions here jj can hold up our campervan in just one hand he s strong and here mr m pats the top of a lighthouse he s veeeery tall just so you know this is that lighthouse shown below the person at the bottom gives the true scale this illusion above is more natural a rock that looks like an animal it s the swirl of the water which enhances the illusion making it look as if the creature is swimming along of course its the persistence of vision which provides the illusion of continuous motion the basis of film movies and animation here is a short animation made from still shots of an escher print it was an exercise for school the photoshop work took all day the animation compiling took about ten minutes there is also illusion knitting also known as shadow knitting i ve had a try at that with this top directly front on there s just horizontal stripes at an angle the vertical stripes magically appear must finish it one day and last but not least the illusion here how many rail tracks are here the angle of the sun was just right to make this illusion and i had the camera ready oh the location busselton jetty in wa it s the longest wooden jetty in the southern hemisphere 2 kilometres long posted by susie m at 12 46 pm 4 comments labels abc along i illusions photos thursday 17 april 2008 h is for hat of course i like making hats for a slow knitter like me they give a quicker reward i can also experiment more easily with less time and materials lost if it doesn t work out this hat is the very versatile toque vvt made for my bag swap swapee it s my own design but really it s pretty generic for the most part knit a flat top knit the sides felt like crazy here polly models the unfelted hat it s way too big unfortunately even after three hot washes and even drying in the tumble dryer it was still too big the yarn was hand wash felting really is a random event the vvt is basic black felted hat that can be adorned to match any outfit d ress it up or dress it down it will go with anything the secret is the in built tab this can be used to thread a scarf or ribbon or attach a brooch studs an ornament or fascinator the integral tab is shown here there is a lined top form included inside the hat this provides a firmer shape for the top of the hat the photos were taken with the form in place here the toque is adorned simply with a netting circlet and rosette on a brooch clip here the leopard print scarf is tied through a buckle and added below the netting a simple twisted velvet ribbon passes through the loop at the end of the ribbon and then through the tab and tied off a multi coloured silk scarf is wrapped twice and knotted around the tab an extra long scarf is passed through the tab once then twisted on itself and wrapped around the hat again the ends are tucked in i don t know if my swapee liked the hat she didn t say i don t even know if it fitted or if she even tried it on oh well now i know why many people only knit for themselves posted by susie m at 10 57 pm 4 comments labels very versatile toque abc along felting finished work hat swap toque thursday 10 april 2008 g is for glass i like glass sparkly shiny transparent translucent sometimes almost invisible the glass sweeties were a present from my mum who guaranteed they were zero calories bit crunchy though while i haven t set out to collect glass sometimes it just comes my way a bit like the dragons i especially like the blue cobalt glass the real stuff but other colours or clear can be chosen it s just what appeals at the time my kitchen window gets the sun all day and is the perfect spot to put the pieces they look lovely backlit the glass candlestick is mexican i like its quirky imperfections its lopsidedness the trapped air bubble and the way the top blue bit seems to float in the air because of the transparent support stem the very round piece was a birthday present from mr m last year he got it signed engraved by the glass artist who made it that wonderful curved shape is just begging to be held and petted not the same way as alpaca yarn of course but it s still a very tactile piece i also have some prisms and faceted crystals hanging in the window not in a hippy way more in a scientific way the refraction of a light source the scattering of rainbows all through the kitchen yeah really the house was designed on passive solar principles so the angle of the roof blocks the sun in summer as the year progresses the angle of the sun gets lower and the crystals light up again my rainbows return round about valentine s day they make up for the days getting shorter _ posted by susie m at 9 17 pm no comments labels abc along glass thursday 27 march 2008 f is for finished i was taking part in the australian bag lady bag swap on ravelry and now that my swapee has received her bag i solemnly delclare it s finished phew here is the cheery cherries bag fellow ravellers will find the details there but there s some here too the pattern started out as an idea that came to me in the middle of the night luckily i keep pen and paper by the bed so i jotted down a sketch with some notes then i cut a piece of card to the size i wanted the finished bag to be i did heaps of calculations to get stitches per 10 cm how to do the shaping etc i spent a couple of days making charts in excel and photoshop this bag features a linen stitch background for the cables i wanted a firmer stitch than reverse stocking stitch two fronts one white one black to suit the mood intarsia cherry pattern from my own charts three dimensional cherry and leaf zip pull a two colour cable done as intarsia rather than carrying colours across the back i have no idea if that s the right way to do it themed lining braid stitch edges on the outside pockets an adjustable and removable shoulder strap in linen stitch which can be threaded through to make short handles i don t think i will do another swap i was very happy with what i received and thought laura did a really great job i did feel disappointed with how the other side of it went while the swapee sort of made the right noises when she received it more fuss over the cost of postage the first thing she knit afterwards was a bag stating it was because she didn t get what she wanted in the swap this is despite her saying surprise me in the swap criteria now of course she can knit anything she wants at any time for any reason but the timing of this one and that pointed comment was mean hurtful and torpedoed all my efforts there are many many ways that bag could have been introduced eg i got all enthusiastic about all the wonderful bags that have been knitted or i just had to add to my bag collection or i really need a market bag or well almost anything really but what was written i ve read many forum posts about disappointing reactions to things knitted for others i now know exactly what they mean _ posted by susie m at 10 39 am 4 comments labels abc along bag finished work swap older posts home subscribe to comments atom my button about me susie m in melbourne australia a baby boomer wife mother worker student computer geek photographer and now knitter you can also find me on ravelry as susiem view my complete profile blog archive 2011 1 august 1 cute as 2008 20 may 3 april 2 march 2 february 5 january 8 2007 46 december 4 november 1 october 5 september 2 august 14 july 17 june 3 abc along on ravelry after you ve finished here knitting tips and techniques from sarah bradberry s site knitty the on line knitters magazine who links to my website aussie 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