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Cold studio OOTD

Today’s cold studio outfit of the day (OOTD):

Three hand knits and my furry legwarmers. It’s warmed up from 27° to about 30°, the dog’s water dish is frozen solid. Glad to have a space heater in the studio! But I can’t glue in the studio (fumes + heater and lack of a box fan), the vinyl loses it’s flexibility when it’s this cold, and the sewing machine is a sluggish engine until it heats up.

Vivid Valentine wrap in Mad Tosh

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/vivid-valentine

Elsie motorcycle jacket

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/elsie-14

Her Story is Full of Holes lace hat

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/her-story-is-full-of-holes

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Finishing projects

On New Year’s Day I made a list of my studio projects in progress, and wip’s (works in progress) and have been trying to work on finishing them whenever I’m taking a break from the studio, before starting new projects, and revisiting my wip list frequently.

I finished a latch hook kit I started Christmas of 2020 or 2019, and today I made a pillow case with an envelope style opening using some canvas that matched one of the leaves. It worked out great, and I was glad to have a walking foot sewing machine.

Latch hook rug pillow case

I’m also finishing up knitting projects, I finished up an am wet blocking a Hardly Harness in glow in the dark yarn.

Hardly Harness pattern by Lydia Morrow

In the studio I organized the things I had in progress and made sure all the parts are together, and I will be finishing those projects too, fitting them in between the new pieces I’m starting. Sewing like the wind!

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New to ravelry…

I have been reading about ravelry on various knitting blogs, and it was mentioned in podcasts, and I finally got an invite and started playing with it a bit. We just moved to a new house a few weeks ago, so my stash is in boxes, some in storage at my mom’s, some in hubby’s studio, but I have kept a few projects with me, my set of interchangeable circulars, and some yarns I’d like to play with. Over the past few months of packing, movig, putting things into storage, and trying to hustle up as much freelance work as I could, I finished a couple pairs of socks, some scarves, and pair of cargo pocket toddler shorts (sewing the pockets on now). Making some headway towards my holiday gifting, also have a hat mostly done for my hubby (decreasing for crown). The socks, shorts and hat are all black or charcoal, and I expect I might have problems photographing them.

Anyway, hope I will be better about documenting my projects, I added linkage to this blog rss feed, my del.icio.us bookmarks, and my flickr account. Seems pretty handy so far….

[added 2/22/2010: Love, love,  love ravelry! I have lots of bookmarked patterns in my queue and it’s been a great resource!]