The title says it all! Found this awesome app for wordpress on android market, now I can blog from anywhere I want ! 🙂
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Month: May 2012
Knitting magazines around the globe…
I have been working on this for quite sometime now, trying to collect information about the knitting magazines available across the continents.. I have collected few magazine names, but I’m quite sure there are lots more to be found..
Special thanks to Google translate http://translate.google.com/# for helping me find the language of these magazines and helping me convert the complicated ‘unknown language’ websites into simple english 
Note :
1.I have not gone deep into Asian magazines.. Japanese and chinese have a lot of knitting magazines, but its very difficult to track them.. I have included a few known ones in the list..
2.Tejer La Moda and Phildar are my favorite mags, the patterns are very stylish!
3.http://www.adriafil.com/uk/ allows you to download patterns from back issues for free.. 🙂
4.This list might be updated from time to time as I have hopes that there are lot more to be discovered!!
5. You think I missed something? (which I sure did!!), please comment , I’d be happy to add it to my list 🙂
Sock-a-baby!
I’m so proud to annonce that I have finally finished one sock! (the other sock is still pending, so I cannot wear it and show off !!)..
Sock knitting sounds so complicated at first, but once you finish your first sock, it seems so simple.. I guess I’ll start designing my own patterns pretty soon!!
I just got some free time over this week to go through my craft box.. I found these unfinished projects:
Things in progress:
1. Pinapple doily (thread crochet) -96% complete
2. Embroidery on salway kameez – 90% complete
3. Crochet table mat – 50% complete
Once I complete the other sock ,I’m planning to take up these projects…No point in leaving them unfinished!
Knitting project 2 : a skull cap!!
Since I’m so addicted to knitting now, once I was done with the scarf , I wanted to start knitting something immediately. I was bored with straight knitting, so I tought of knitting something in round.. The first thing I thought of was a tank! but realised its a lot more effort and definitely not something that I want to try as my 1st circular knitting project! So I pick the next best thing, a HAT!!
Now, I have a circular knitting needle , with 75cm string.. While reading patterns on the net, I find I would require a much smaller C needle.. I roam around Bangalore, search every corner of the city, but apparently we don’t get circular needles which are lesser in length than 75cm!! can you believe that!!! I was heartbroken! I surfed the web to find if I can order something online, locally, but found nothing! Then I finally decided to knit the hat with DPNs!! Now, let me tell you, I hae never worked with DPNs before, and I have never seen anybody knit a hat with DPNs. So I start checking on net,youtube to see if hats can be knit with DPNs… I realise the circular needle and the DPNs have the same logic, they make the end project circular! So I start knitting my hat with DPNs 2.25mm , 23cm…
I work initially a 2by2 rib, then switch to a 1by1 rib.. then knit all rounds untill I begin to decrease..The pattern is all mine and the decreases were done depending on my head size.. I wish I could have made the hat a bit much longer so that they could cover my ears, but I didnt realize this while I was working on the hat.. My next hat will definitely be much better and longer!! 🙂
Note – there is something wrong with the colors here, its supposed to be a shade of blue…
The knitted Scarf is finally here…….and so is the knitting book!!
I recently ordered a knitting book on Flipkart , and it finally arrived… The book is titled Celebrity Slouchy Beanies, and has around 7 patterns of beanies to knit… The pattern seems simple and easy to follow, but there are few things we might have to figure out ourselves… I plan to knit the purple one featured on the back of the book(pic attached below), but that will have to wait….But the most important thing , the book was a bit expensive (by Indian terms).. Its notebook sized, just has 36 pages and costs 196 rupees !!! 🙂
I went to the yarn market the other day (called Raja market) and bought these beautiful pink babies… I’m wondering what can I knit with these? A tank top????
I’m finally posting the pics of my finished scarf, my first real knitting project!
