tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89409722356750113612024-03-13T09:47:29.496-07:00Gigi82KnitsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-59405037482622015522016-04-28T14:34:00.001-07:002016-04-28T14:34:08.566-07:00Now I am a photographer too<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, at least I bought the equipment: DSLR camera, book, bag, memory card, remote trigger, extra batteries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure there's lots to learn and improve. To be honest, I'm still using it on auto mostly. The blurry background doesn't seem so difficult, I'll work on this some more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've also been photographing my triplets, the feral cats that show up at my kitchen window, wanting food:</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-79330714432792332732016-04-25T10:10:00.003-07:002016-04-25T10:11:01.863-07:00Christmas stocking with Raccoon <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I recently knitted a Christmas stocking to match this fox with Santa Hat Christmas stocking:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has green and red reversed, so it starts off in red:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The raccoon is quite large, but so is the fox with hat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the pure wool version, around 25" long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now available as a made to order Christmas stocking on my Etsy website: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SantasSockCentral" target="_blank">https://www.etsy.com/shop/SantasSockCentral</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Ireland, we have two large, popular German supermarket chains: Lidl and Aldi (while in Germany there's a bunch more shops like these). They have a large selection of food at a discounted price and I do my main shop at Lidl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the 9.75 years I've been living in Ireland they have never offered the German food I love: Spaetzle, Schupfnudeln, Nuernberger Wuerstchen, Leberkaese, Currywurst. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One gets used to this grave oversight in product supply. Sure, black pudding and bacon rashers are great comfort foods too. But as of this week, Lidl is actually offering the good stuff! All I've missed (and more), available in Lidl:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My flatmate and I have been stuffing our suitcases when coming back from Germany to bring back a few weeks' supply of Spaetzle ("Egg noodles"), Schupfnudeln ("Potatoe noodles"), Leberkaese ("Bavarian style mini meatloaf") etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To make it even better, it couldn't have come at a better time: We ran out of supplies</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> from the Christmas break a little while ago and the next trip to Germany is 1 month (for her)/ 2 months (for me) away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this was the combined shopping, which should last us for a few weeks:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm very grateful to Lidl, you've made a bunch of German expats very happy this week! Let's hope it catches on and becomes a regular thing. These things don't necessarily have to become part of the product line, but once every 3-6 months would be amazing! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then there's Aldi. Due to it's lack of freshly baked breads and pastries it's only my second favourite supermarket. But in keeping tabs on what Lidl is doing, they might do these German superfoods in a few weeks too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More great news: After stacking up all the food in the fridge, there's even a bit of space left, so we can go back to Lidl and buy some more Spaetzle tomorrow, because, you know, Every Lidl helps...</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-56994503777394677132016-04-10T11:40:00.001-07:002016-04-10T11:40:47.635-07:00Sail Boats on a Christmas Stocking<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently finished knitting a Christmas stocking with sail boats, on special request for the customer.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This stocking has the same name on front and back. Sometimes I knit a nickname, birth date or initials on the back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The customer chose the boats and I made a knitting chart from them. I had to frog a part of the boat, it wasn't looking right.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "graphik web" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Year 1: Within 5 minutes of hearing about Etsy, I opened my shop. I had one (badly-photographed) aran cardigan, beautiful and way too cheap! Later on I listed baby booties, leg warmers, socks and pillow cases that I knitted. I sold nothing for 4 months. Finally got some orders for pillow cases (with aran patterns, all kinds of colours and sizes), most were custom orders. Got into personalized Christmas stockings and sold a few around my first Etsy Christmas, way too cheap, although they weren't as good as they are now.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-81640408495463231102015-12-13T06:39:00.001-08:002015-12-13T06:39:11.458-08:00Christmas Stockings - Creating Memories <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Graphik Web', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">Christmas conjures up soothing memories - the scent of pine and cinnamon, the crackle and warmth of a fire, and time-honored traditions that thrill hearts young and old in equal measure. One of the most delightful of these traditions is the Christmas stocking. Whether your family dives into stockings bursting with treats the night before Christmas or early in the morning before the main event, the hanging of empty stockings always elicits a tiny thrill of expectation. </span><div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-54794966762800162802015-09-14T23:23:00.000-07:002015-09-14T23:23:49.889-07:00Set of 6 Knitted Christmas stockings<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got a great order for 6 personalized knitted Christmas stockings last month, I like everything about them:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These 6 stockings are extra large: 29" long and 8.5" wide. Each stocking repeats 3x a smaller pattern (hearts, snowflakes and trees). I was also able to include the diamond pattern at the foot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got the official order on 10th August, finished them on 7th September. There were a few smaller orders I was working on at the same time, but this was my main project. In September till November a set of 6 would take me longer (I would have more orders at the same time). I exchanged about 75 messages with the buyer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To order a set of (or just one) personalized knitted Christmas stockings, please contact me via my Etsy shop: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SantasSockCentral" target="_blank">Santa's Sock Central</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-26861252606502378312015-02-23T09:43:00.000-08:002015-02-23T09:43:36.219-08:00February - and swamped with orders...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, it's not so bad. Nobody is in a big rush to get their Christmas stockings at the moment. But I'm still knitting 3 orders at the same time, all for 4 or 5 stockings. I have finished 2 orders in the new year, these four:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are pure wool (Donegal Tweed), a few new colour combinations, each one is different, but they are still clearly a set. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for these two I had to make up a fox and an owl pattern, which took ages again. I test knitted each pattern in a smaller stocking, originally the fox hat a long tail as well, but the customer preferred the foxes matching the owls, two each side, both so cute. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 % out of season discount is still available (for orders received by May 2015), my shop on Etsy: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SantasSockCentral" target="_blank">Santa's Sock Central</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On instagram I'm hosting a giveaway: Simply follow me and comment on one of my photos which Christmas stocking you would like to win. Winner will be drawn on Dec 9th, 2014. So far there are 18 entries, so the chances are good. <a href="http://instagram.com/santas_sock_central" target="_blank">http://instagram.com/santas_sock_central</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Find me on etsy: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SantasSockCentral" target="_blank">https://www.etsy.com/shop/SantasSockCentral</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-60002503211675380842014-11-03T12:37:00.001-08:002014-11-03T12:37:31.882-08:00Finished Christmas Stockings and a new crochet project<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last weekend I finished 4 orders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a reward I also continued on my crochet blanket. It will have stripes of different patterns. I see a lot of them on the internet, but I'm not following a pattern (just patterns for the different squares). I also want to do stripes and some sort of horizontal stripes. And maybe something really simple, like squares in one colour. I don't want airy patterns, these are pretty solid so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas stockings & patterns are for sale in my Etsy shop (but no more custom orders for 2014): <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SantasSockCentral" target="_blank">Santa's Sock Central</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-61339513877378980112014-10-20T10:18:00.002-07:002014-10-20T10:18:25.166-07:00Knitting Week 42<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week I've been busy again, finished 2 orders (basically finished). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- set of 5 stockings (4 done)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Emily stocking with snowflakes, now finished</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 2 wool stockings finished (the turtle!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orders are now for 2015 in my Etsy shop: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SantasSockCentral" target="_blank">Santa's Sock Central</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-4464253612350210822014-10-12T08:29:00.000-07:002014-10-12T08:29:07.876-07:00Christmas stockings in progress Week 41 2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week I've been working on the following Christmas stocking projects:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Carli stocking with reindeer to match previously ordered stocking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Emily to match previously ordered set</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Set of 4 small yellow/ red stockings, finally finished the turtle one, these will be listed in my Etsy shop soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This set is now finished too, very happy with these:</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-50936123870603155682014-10-05T23:18:00.002-07:002014-10-05T23:18:53.270-07:00Currently Working on: Lots of Christmas Stockings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So much to do, so little time! I got all the personalized stocking orders I can handle for this Christmas, which is great! Now I just have to knit 19 stockings in the next 6 weeks. Fingers crossed there are no more do-overs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm going to take photos only on weekends and send photos on Mondays. The light will be bad soon when I get home from work in the evenings. So I will have lots of works in progress. Currently 6 orders I'm working on. One isn't in the photo yet, I started it yesterday afternoon. The set of 5 in the top right corner is basically finished, "just" sewing in of a million threads and the loops at the top. Then I have another set of 5 that is halfway done, then a wool stocking (1 of 2) with turtles, how cool! That's a new pattern. Then the yellow ones in the bottom left corner, I tried the turtle on a small stocking first. Finishing it is not a priority. Then 2 stockings that I wanted to make sure the customers liked the colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aren't they pretty?! This is going to be my new main photo for the set of 5 on Etsy. But not this year, it's sold out and not getting renewed. Maybe I'll write the pattern for the snowmen and snowflake stockings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This set turned out lovely, the stockings have very similar patterns but the main patterns are all completely different which makes them very striking I think. I'm a bit afraid the third stocking could get me into trouble with the trademark holders, so I'm not going to mention what the symbol is, so I wouldn't be accidentally found on google. A customer gave me a challenge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a set of pure wool stockings, the customer wanted the bear's nose slightly shorter, I agree that this looks better, so I changed the pattern for future projects. This colour way for a set of 2 and in pure wool is extremely popular, I already knitted a few and I have another one on the needles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This set could well be my favourite new design of 2014, looks great with the colours like this. I like how I'm moving away from the black and white (+ colour) I used to only do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a third stocking to be knitted, with reindeer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally I got an order for a gingerbread man, I've been dying to knit this again. Classic design, very popular this year again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My current count is 20 stockings to knit, but there are up to 4 prospective customers who I'm saving time for as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This weekend I should be able to finish 2 orders, and start 3 new ones, I hope anyway. I want to only take photos on Sundays, it's getting quite dark in the evening now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So no more orders for Christmas 2014 please. But I have started the waiting list for 2015. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SantasSockCentral" target="_blank">Santa's Sock Central</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-66288713750054339842014-09-15T02:22:00.002-07:002014-09-15T02:22:38.725-07:00Santa's Sock Central<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm proud to announce I am now: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I changed my shop name from Gigi82knits to SantasSockCentral on Etsy. Many considerations went into this name. I wanted something with "sock" or "stockings" in the shop name, I wanted something catchy, something unique and something that reflects what I'm doing in my Etsy shop. There were other choices of names (any competitors reading this looking for inspiration? Send me a private message and I'll give you a few good names). I would have gone for Sock Central only, but someone is using that user name in one of the social media platforms. So now I'm Gigi @ Santa's Sock Central, isn't that cool! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Find me on Etsy: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SantasSockCentral" target="_blank">Santa's Sock Central</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-22446370672729575432014-08-10T00:33:00.001-07:002014-08-10T00:35:39.424-07:00Christmas Stockings of 2014<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are some of the Christmas stockings I have knitted in the last 6 months for the early shoppers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now taking orders for Christmas 2014 in my Etsy shop: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Gigi82Knits" target="_blank">Gigi82Knits</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the top left hand corner I have a pair of "Frankensocks", that's going to be a pair of socks that will look like two different socks have been stitched together (unnaturally). There's a very obvious seem indicated by a fair isle. I'm sure they'll look great, but they're turning out very small. Next time I'll use bigger needles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there's the Christmas stocking in the middle, very nice colours. It's going to be a set of 4. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The purple sock has a easy knit and purl pattern, it's 6ply yarn and I'm only knitting with 12 stitches per needle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next to it is a vanilla sock, no special pattern, for when I don't want to concentrate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And at the bottom is possibly my next masterpiece. A whale/ shark pair of socks. The top part is knitted in double knitting, then there's a wavy pattern with contrasting blues. The cast on was extremely! awkward, but it was all easier after it and well worth the trouble. I'm hoping to get the pattern written as I knit the second sock. Then I'm going to model the socks for photographs which is always fun and I get to keep them for myself... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mostly I make all kinds of socks out of the sock yarn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hoping to all the same patterns in all the different colours:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's going to take awhile, but it's lots of fun and they're quick to do (about 4 hours each). Check out my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Gigi82Knits" target="_blank">Etsy Shop</a> where I'll be listing them over the next few months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Next will be a cat stocking and I'll probably be out of turquoise. But 4 is a good number. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The angel motif is new, it's quite big, but I like it. I'm going to knit it on a 2 colour stocking soon, red or blue with white. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm going to publish my pattern soon, it's my plan for the next few weeks. It's a lot of work, though. Lots of writing and re-writing and photographing and oh no, forgot a needle, have to photograph again... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There will be just 2 more stockings shipped this year and that's it then. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I might do a best-of 2013 stockings post or video, I think that would be fun. There were lots of stockings this year. I actually know exactly how many, I keep a spreadsheet ;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm very happy with how they turned out. They're huge, about 9" wide. They have to be that wide to accommodate the names, so this will probably be something I'll do more of next year. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05266785968879335864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940972235675011361.post-59503468949713552732013-11-19T10:13:00.001-08:002013-11-19T10:13:50.569-08:00Lots of stockings knitted<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been very busy in the last few weeks, lots of stockings to knit. Next year I need more ready to ship ones. But here are a few that were finished this month:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For this pair I used the contrast colour more so that the two would be more different. This was a very nice project, also introduced the contrast colour heel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one is very wide, "Clementine" is a long name, so I made it a little shorter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm flattered so many people wanted the brown-red design, it was invented thanks to my mother (I would have gone for blue instead of red). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For this one I knitted two rows of animals "walking", I usually don't do this, but the bears are small and it worked with the stitches available until I had to start the heel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another grey one, next year I will focus on the grey ones a bit more, they're so elegant and the colour combination possibilities are endless...</span><br />
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