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Month: November 2012

  • Kunaal’s Cricket Vest

    Kunaal's vestAs many of you know, my good friend Kunaal got married recently in India. I wasn’t able to go to the wedding so I knew I had to come up with something amazing as a gift. I had the idea six months ago to knit him a proper, traditional cricket vest. (Kunaal is a cricket tragic.) I enlisted the help of his fiancée Kriti to surreptitiously measure some of his other jumpers for proper sizing. I also looked up the colours of the Indian cricket team to use as the stripe accents.

    The pattern is Sirdar 5815, which I believe is out of print. (I got the very last copy at Morris & Sons, which they actually had to cut out of the pattern book.) The white wool is Morris Empire 8ply, and the blue accents are Morris Estate 8ply. I adapted the pattern to knit the body up to the armholes in the round, then split for the front and back. I’m very happy with how it turned out! I gave it to Kunaal before he left on his wedding trip and was pleased to see that it fit. He confessed that he had actually been thinking of buying one, so it was definitely appreciated! Thanks to Kriti for helping out with the planning…

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @Gin_ev_ra Weird. Thanks for notice, I’ll check.

    KSU lost?! Oregon tied in the 4th? WE COULD BE #1! HOLY CRAP, GO STANFORD. PUT OREGON AWAY!!

    @AndyVo20 I’m watching Stanford!

    @AndyVo20 If we’re in the final, it’ll be the day we get back to Sydney from the US.

    @AndyVo20 Just analysing everything on phone with my Dad. Craziness.

    I will never say this again: HELLS YEAH, STANFORD! Notre Dame should be #1 for the first time in years and years. *dancing a jig*

    @jeffsorr The ND fans sure liked it. 🙂

    A friend back on campus says rumour is the big #1 will go up tonight. I need photos!

    Finished this month’s MetaQuilter square. That was a LOT of seaming! #sewvember http://t.co/WiJN2NVH

    In other #sewvember news, cut out Negroni shirt pieces in calico for a proper practice muslin. I’m still very daunted.

    @witty_knitter It’s a proper tailored man’s shirt. A lot of steps, a lot of new techniques, flat felled seams, etc.

    @Gin_ev_ra Turns out my web host changed a setting. Thanks for tipping me off! Still in repair mode, but hopefully that one’s fixed.

    Ugh. If writing PHP required a license, mine would be REVOKED.

    It’s a sad fact of human nature that we often bond more over things we dislike than things that we do like.

    RT @darrenrovell: Not sure Manti Te’o is going to win the Heisman, but I love this poster (via @RaeLynne143) http://t.co/TrjABKK0

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Okay, so one of you needs to post a photo of that beautiful #1 when it gets lit up on Grace. This Irish alum on the other side of the world is missing you all and dancing a jig! WE ARE ND!!

    Finished this month’s MetaQuilter square. That was a LOT of seaming! #sewvember http://instagr.am/p/SKij4MxJEt/

  • Fixing things

    UGH, I SUCK. So it turns out my web host finally changed a security setting that they probably should have changed like ten years ago, and it broke a bunch of my code that I also should have fixed up ten years ago. It’s not a complicated fix – just a tedious one – so I’m workin’ on it. In the meantime, comments should be working again. If you see any weird errors, please let me know!

  • Wrap up of November Girl Geek Meetup | girl geek sydney

    Wrap up of November Girl Geek Meetup | girl geek sydney – If you missed my talk last week, here are my slides! I got great feedback and everybody seemed to like it. There’s even a picture of me wildly gesticulating mid-talk! 🙂

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    Finished this month's MetaQuilter square. That was a LOT of seaming! #sewvember
    Finished this month’s MetaQuilter square. That was a LOT of seaming! #sewvember

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @knitdra Haha, glad that worked out for you. 🙂

    Wasabi KitKat! Surprisingly good. http://t.co/FoTVFp6b

    @pyko One of Rodd’s colleagues brought it back from Japan. It was disappointingly UN-wasabi-like. 🙁

    I have finished knitting a thing, which may or may not be a secret thing. Mum’s the word.

    Spent the evening tracing pattern for Negroni shirt and crapping myself over complexity of directions. I’m officially daunted. #sewvember

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Wasabi KitKat! Surprisingly good. http://instagr.am/p/SHX4VMRJDu/

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    Wasabi KitKat! Surprisingly good.
    Wasabi KitKat! Surprisingly good.

  • Blank Canvas Tee – 3 Hours Past the Edge of the World

    Blank Canvas Tee – 3 Hours Past the Edge of the World – How neat! A bare-bones T-shirt sewing pattern that can be dressed up and hacked in various ways. And it’s FREE!