Sunday, April 22, 2018
Snowflakes!
i post here the corrected version of my Celtic Snow Flakes, from the Lodi 2018 convention...
text-only pattern - both sizes
visual pattern - small
visual pattern - large snowflake
warning! the visual patterns don't print well... i'm still working on that!
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
is this thing on?
like many, i need to get back to this...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
beautiful lace
i was gifted with a antique book of knitting, crochet, and "other" patterns, a couple months ago. since i found that a PDF was available, i gave the physical book to someone who would appreciate such a thing, and started in translating antique knit-speak to modern notation. (this is starting to become a theme!)
it seems that Ravelry doesn't want patterns that aren't a finished "thing," so i'm posting the plain translated pattern here. the finished wrist warmers/ finger-less mitts are on Rav at http://www.ravelry.com/projects/danigeek/beautiful-lace-cuffs. the pattern will be uploaded there shortly... i hope!
the base pattern can be accessed with this "elegant and finely crafted link"... Beautiful Lace.
feel free to comment for any reason whatsoever,,, except spam, of course!
%-)
Friday, January 23, 2015
TIAS 2015!
i'm posting here so i don't forget!
the TIAS is up and running again, and i'm running behind trying to keep up! i've been an average of two "days" behind the whole time!
here's my composite of days 1-3 and 7... there was a mixup at the end of the first ear (yes, i'm with the rabbit crowd!) and i had to start over again... in the middle of church, which made pictures problematic.
hope to keep up for a while!
dani
Friday, April 18, 2014
crocheted butterfly pic
wow, i bet you didn't even remember i had a blog! i almost didn't!
(ok, ok, enough with the "!"s already! err...)
right...
a few years ago, we passed around a crocheted butterfly pattern at the Hector Tatting convention. i have just been asked to provide a picture:
i would also link to the pattern, but we're not sure where it came from in the first place, except we're pretty sure it's under copyright to someone else...
any way... i'll try to get back to the whole "blog" thing, now that i'm mostly over my fan-fic binge... which actually has nothing to do with why i stopped blogging... more later?
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
spelling - fixed!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
i have committed blocking!
having gone to the trouble of knitting not one, but two of the Summer Mystery Shawlette by Wendy Knits, i finally had to do something about the whole blocking thing.
i recently moved a very large plywood bookcase into my bedroom, where i have, if not more open floor, at least an openable floor with no(t much) cat hair, so i tacked a sheet to the bookcase and pinned the wet shawl to the sheet! this wasn't quite as straight forward as i'd have liked, especially since i was sort of MaGyver-ing the whole thing. but...
and a close up!
(there's a right side up pic on flickr, if yer interested!)
the blue one will get its turn either tomorrow or when i get back from Origins... hopefully tomorrow, since i'd like to wear it in Ohio!
maybe someday i'll get blocking wires, and blocking mats, and proper pins (instead of lace pins, sigh) ... maybe...
blocking, squee!
Saturday, March 26, 2011
wiki knows lace!
came up on my "How-To of the Day" on my Google home page.
hee!
8-)
Saturday, February 12, 2011
muy macho!
i went to the home improvement store and bought a woodworking hand tool. i brought it home and used it to alter my house in a useful way. i breathed hard and sweated. i made a big mess and someone else cleaned up after me!
very nice.
and now my bathroom door closes.
sweet.
8-)
Friday, May 14, 2010
quite an article
how could it be bad!
i may have to visit this museum someday!
8-)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The Mindgamer
Your result for The Fan Fiction Personality Test...
The Mindgamer
Everything is possible, nothing is ever really over.
Fanfiction is a creative outlet for you. You don't intentionally write it, it just happens. You find inspiration in several fandoms, but are not obsessed with only one.
You like to explore "what if" situations. What if this character had never made this very choice? What if this event had taken place sooner, never, elsewhere? What if these people had never met?
You are likely to write Alternative Universes, fan seasons or sequels and just follow your (sometimes pretty strange) plot bunnies.
Take The Fan Fiction Personality Test at OkCupid
this would have gone better if they had more multiple-answer questions... sigh... here i am, destined to never fit into a genra... sigh...
Friday, January 15, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
Soup!
(no the floating round things aren't hot dogs!)
Yummy happy lentil soup!
(why, yes, i am extraordinarily pleased with myself, why do you ask?)
ingredients: onion, carrots (cut up), olive oil to saute the preceding, leftover ham from Christmas (frozen), H2O, lentils, carrots ("whole" baby cut), french onion soup from a box, salt & pepper added at end ('cause i forgot)
recipie? yeah, right. i did take hints from Alton Brown & the lentil container (New Hope Mills), though.
8-)
dani
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
tea tatting tuesday!
i finally participated in Tea Tatting Tuesday... although the tea was first thing in the morning, and the tatting was in the afternoon, i finally got them both in on a Tuesday!
Start Here to find the trick we've been discussing on HBT...
i know i didn't invent this trick. other than that i can't for the life of me remember what it's called!
maybe, if no-one can remember, i could get to name it! it would be like naming a new species!!
how about... budded rings... or yeast rings... hmmm... maybe not.
8-)
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
seen on the intertubes
"The hermit's creed: Call before you come over, email before you call, think twice before you email."
crazy aunt purl
sounds good to me!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
holy cow!
the tiniest knitting ever!
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i may have to try that...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
read on the interweb
"We have created Sock Summit World Headquarters, and now that we're all here, we're even sleeping in it. It's like a great big slumber party only with more office supplies than is normal or probably healthy."hmmm...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Settlers Rocks! (and sheeps, and wheats and...)
Gaming is a hobby i never do enough, let alone too much...
has anybody got Wood for Sheep?
8-)
Friday, March 27, 2009
Looney Labs to the rescue!
my mom has a perfume allergy. and many more things than you would think can cause her to get the sniffles, or (if applied topically) cause her skin to break out in a rash. i personally don't like the smell of perfumes, because we weren't exposed to them growing up. sometimes it can be hard to avoid perfumes, especially if the people providing us services feel like drenching themselves in the stuff.enter Looney Labs. Kristen Looney (iirc) also has an allergy to perfumes, to the point where they can give her migraines. to avoid hurting people's feelings too badly, they developed these cards, to be handed out when standing and explaining the problem would just exacerbate it. i got my mom a set of these, and she found yet another use for them.
at bloodmobile last week (which is at our church, so we fill volunteer positions), she affixed the card to her name tag, since we already noticed one of the collection staff was going to be a problem. it worked!
thanks Looneys!
8-)
(oh, and that's her 11 gallon pin... i'm only six donations behind her!)



