tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58873671534458984122012-02-15T23:34:03.766-08:00Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165433232848093959noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887367153445898412.post-51281813332986707552008-04-18T14:26:00.000-07:002008-04-18T14:33:49.094-07:00well last night after a finished a soaker, I decided it was time to do something for myself...so I cast this little beauty on last night, in a thick eggplant merino, ive done half of one side, the pattern is rather easy but its work on your wrists with the pulling and shoving your needles into the purl three together position.<br /><br />I cant wait to see it finished and lined!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.knittingdaily.com/media/newspics/knitneedlebag.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.knittingdaily.com/media/newspics/knitneedlebag.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.knittingdaily.com/media/newspics/knitneedlebag.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5887367153445898412-5128181333298670755?l=sheknitsslowly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165433232848093959noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887367153445898412.post-12719830880246923372008-02-03T17:47:00.001-08:002008-02-03T17:50:02.376-08:00Found this on the lovely <a href="http://knitmepretty.blogspot.com/">Bec's</a> Blog<br /><br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_uwiN4-39iwE/R6Zu8uSzsBI/AAAAAAAAADs/fET3Ej0d0ho/s1600-h/payitforward.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162936012324974610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_uwiN4-39iwE/R6Zu8uSzsBI/AAAAAAAAADs/fET3Ej0d0ho/s400/payitforward.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center">The first three people to comment on this post will receive a gift from me, sometime within the next 365 days.<br />Who knows when it will turn up, or what it will be, but rest assured, it will arrive.<br />All you have to do is promise to make the same declaration on your blog, and send out gifts to three of your lovely readers.<br />Easy Peasy.</div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:+0;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5887367153445898412-1271983088024692337?l=sheknitsslowly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165433232848093959noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887367153445898412.post-58878027699625392432007-12-11T18:02:00.000-08:002007-12-11T18:18:20.307-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/2077856360_2d0ce6ba1c.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/2077856360_2d0ce6ba1c.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />its been hard to update lately lost my inspiration to knit and create but im slowly getting back into the swing of it all...<br />i also havent put a picture of the water up since ive dyed it so here it is<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />i was working on these for the last two weeks forgot to take a finished picture so heres a work in progress shot<br />im pretty pleased with how they turned out, wool was dyed by me aswell!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/2077056185_bd6279afde.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/2077056185_bd6279afde.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5887367153445898412-5887802769962539243?l=sheknitsslowly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165433232848093959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887367153445898412.post-14010824091349219622007-10-04T14:42:00.000-07:002007-10-04T15:09:11.089-07:00<div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.yarncollective.com/allstores.php"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.yarncollective.com/images/header.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#6600cc;">A fab group of women who have the most amazing stuff for sale! some of the highlights<br /></span></strong></div></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="http://theyarncafe.blogspot.com/"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_bhg23_d5pqc/Rt9GVqAe81I/AAAAAAAAArI/VLmlw7UuOiY/s1600/YARN+CAFE+heart.jpg" border="0" /></a> my desire from this store is <strong><span style="color:#ffcc00;">'</span><span style="color:#33cc00;">Sunflower'</span></strong><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 216px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="215" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_bhg23_d5pqc/RuPf06Ae9HI/AAAAAAAAAtY/oliZriyiqYc/S220/DSC00222.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"><br /><br />also the stunning <span style="color:#993399;"><strong>'Mont Matre'<br /></strong></span>(i stayed there when i spent a week in paris gosh its devine)</p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="219" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_bhg23_d5pqc/RuPUraAe85I/AAAAAAAAAro/qQ0mAOj7o4g/S220/DSC00199" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center">and also the beautiful<strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"> 'Channon'<br /></span></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 241px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 206px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="221" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_bhg23_d5pqc/RufU33CfG5I/AAAAAAAAAuo/ugyxlJObZbU/S220/ChannonAranBFL.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="http://yarncollective.com/images/header.gif"></a></p><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.yarncollective.com/store.php?SS=11"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.yarncollective.com/images/wahm/11/dyelicious.gif" border="0" /></a>my want from this store lol</div><br /><br /><div align="center">Is '<strong><span style="color:#000099;">Paradise'</span></strong> gosh its nice!<br /><br /><br /></div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.yarncollective.com/images/wahm/11/dyelot4.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center"><br />I aslo lust after<strong><span style="color:#3366ff;"> 'IceAge'</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.yarncollective.com/images/wahm/11/iceage.jpg" border="0" /></div><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">thats all so far lol my poor bank balance is going to be shot out of the water once I get enough funds together to buy my Lust List!</span><br /><br /><br /><p align="left"><a href="http://yarncollective.com/images/header.gif"></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5887367153445898412-1401082409134921962?l=sheknitsslowly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165433232848093959noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887367153445898412.post-71174465836512102642007-10-04T14:34:00.001-07:002007-10-04T14:38:15.156-07:00<a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1343/1429644261_181e3758cf.jpg?v=0"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1343/1429644261_181e3758cf.jpg?v=0" border="0" /></a><br /><div>should get off my bum and post more! </div><br /><div>this came out of the dyepot recently, a walk in autum part of elis's elemental longies!</div>i wasnt sure at first but now ive really taken to it! it looks so nice in conjuction with lemongrass! ill post a pic of the longies in progress!<br /><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5887367153445898412-7117446583651210264?l=sheknitsslowly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165433232848093959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887367153445898412.post-30400905828139790542007-09-13T16:32:00.000-07:002007-09-13T16:35:30.928-07:00<p align="center"><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_uwiN4-39iwE/RunJDc8knTI/AAAAAAAAACs/KBf-fuBkiQ0/s1600-h/awool+007.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109836313375579442" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_uwiN4-39iwE/RunJDc8knTI/AAAAAAAAACs/KBf-fuBkiQ0/s320/awool+007.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><br /><br />another day, another basket of wool to clean up lol, I swear he pulls it over pulls as many threads of wool as he can get then crawls away quick smart so it looks like it wasnt him!!<br /><br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><3<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />im slowly knitting these longies up...i have 100 things on my plate at the moment and by then end of the night the last thing i feel like doing is knitting, but im certainly trying at least 20 rows a night.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5887367153445898412-3040090582813979054?l=sheknitsslowly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165433232848093959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887367153445898412.post-12713428289138204042007-09-08T21:50:00.000-07:002007-09-08T21:55:23.404-07:00<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uwiN4-39iwE/RuN8jgR_P_I/AAAAAAAAACk/iIqtKmm3U-Q/s1600-h/eli+woo2.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108063351770922994" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uwiN4-39iwE/RuN8jgR_P_I/AAAAAAAAACk/iIqtKmm3U-Q/s320/eli+woo2.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uwiN4-39iwE/RuN8UgR_P-I/AAAAAAAAACc/IzNgoM0KOhk/s1600-h/eli+wool.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108063094072885218" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uwiN4-39iwE/RuN8UgR_P-I/AAAAAAAAACc/IzNgoM0KOhk/s320/eli+wool.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div align="left">My mum started to teach me to crochet last night, and my little one decided he wanted to play too! Im slowly getting the hang of it, nothing fancy out of me just yet lol but give me time!</div><div align="left"><br /><br /></div><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5887367153445898412-1271342828913820404?l=sheknitsslowly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165433232848093959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887367153445898412.post-58851995811179293742007-09-08T15:05:00.000-07:002007-09-08T15:10:07.147-07:00<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uwiN4-39iwE/RuMdlgR_P9I/AAAAAAAAACU/rQqV-mcnbEw/s1600-h/lemongrass.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107958932526022610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_uwiN4-39iwE/RuMdlgR_P9I/AAAAAAAAACU/rQqV-mcnbEw/s320/lemongrass.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><div><div>Finally got my first dye job uploaded!</div><br /><br /><br /><div>Im really happy with the greens, I called it Lemongrass, im knitting up a pair of longies for my little boy! using the elements as my inspiration! earth air fire water...calling them the elementals!</div><br /><div>Tell me what you think</div><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5887367153445898412-5885199581117929374?l=sheknitsslowly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165433232848093959noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887367153445898412.post-72332132044220952732007-09-06T19:16:00.000-07:002007-09-06T19:17:37.758-07:00<div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);" align="center"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>10 Principles of Knitting</b><br /></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">1. It's all about the awesome yarn choices. Simple stitches & patterns create gorgeous pieces.</span><br /></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-style: italic;"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> 2. Strive to relax and have fun.<br /></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-style: italic;"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Do not strive for perfection.<br /></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-style: italic;"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> 3. Be clever & daring. Take a risk!<br /></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-style: italic;"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> 4. Every mistake can be fixed.</span><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /> 5. Swatch, swatch, swatch.<br /></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-style: italic;"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> 6. Set goals, not deadlines.<br /></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-style: italic;"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> 7. Never stop learning.</span><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-style: italic;"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> 8. Share the legacy,<br /></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-style: italic;"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">teach someone to knit.<br /></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-style: italic;"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> 9. Put your signature on each gift.<br /></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-style: italic;"><span class="Helvetica10" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">10. Knit with love</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5887367153445898412-7233213204422095273?l=sheknitsslowly.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08165433232848093959noreply@blogger.com0