Tomorrow I will be sending my first shipment outside of the US. It’s only going to Canada…but that still counts, right? 
Oh the power of the Internet.
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Masterpiece
Wow. So far, these are pretty much my favorite thing I have knitted. Ever.
I really have to give almost all of the credit to Lee Meredith, who is the genius behind this pattern. It’s so amazing that I can’t even explain it. It must be her absolute fluency in the language of knitting. Check her out at http://www.leethal.net/
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Extreme Knitting
I am new to adventures in “Knitting in the Giant.” I purchased my GIANT knitting needles from Go-Girl Knitting. I found her on Facebook and she made them just for me. They are so lovely and very professionally done. She was also nice enough to share her patterns. 
http://www.facebook.com/GOGIRLKNITTING
I giggled a lot while I was working with them, because it really is kind of comical…
The knitting itself goes fairly fast, but I had to take breaks because my arms would get tired. I never knew knitting could be such a workout!
I used 3 strands of super bulky weight yarn held together for a total of just under 1000 yards, and just knit in plain old garter stitch.
So after a couple of days of intermittent knitting, here is my first finished item. A super squishy blanket…
Here is a comparison shot of the stitching of the blanket next to a scarf made from a worsted weight yarn, which is a fairly standard size yarn, made in the same garter stitch with pretty standard size needles. 
Notice any difference?
I LOVE GIANT KNITTING!
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Scatterbrained
That’s kind of how I feel these days. I don’t have any intense knitting or spinning projects going on lately, because most of my brain power is being occupied by my new job. But, being the person that I am, it’s impossible for me NOT to at least do something fibery. So here are some pictures of some of the projects I’ve been working on lately.
There are actually a couple other things I’m working on too, but one is a mess and another is a secret.
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Growing Pains
It’s been an intense week. I would like to say more, but it’s hard to put into words. My emotions have been all over the place as I learn and grow at this new page in my career. I suppose the one thing I can say, is that it’s nice to know that I have so many emotions available to feel.
Kick ass.
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Action Collection Revealed
So, since Chris’s recent facebook post of the pictures of my action figure collection caused a small stir, I thought I would devote a blog post to elaborate or to answer any possible questions that may have arisen because of it. In case you missed it, here are the pictures…
Here are the possible questions that I imagine may have popped into your head when you saw these photos:
- What the hell?!?
- Where did all that come from?
- What is it exactly?
- I’ve known Chris & Maria for 10+ years and I’ve never seen or heard of this…why not?
- Why is it all over your living room??
- WHY DID YOU POST THIS ON THE INTERNET?!
I don’t remember exactly what year I started this collection, sometime in the early/mid 90s maybe, I’d guess around 93-94. The idea for the collection was female action figures/super heroes. I don’t even remember exactly which one I started with. I do have some non-female figures, but the bulk is women.
After a while, I was tired of spending money, and the novelty was starting to wear off. Plus I couldn’t really afford it any more. I didn’t want to get rid of them though, but I also didn’t think it would be worth it to sell them at that point. I know that there were a lot of them that weren’t really worth anything, but I had hoped that some might eventually increase in value, even if just a bit. So I boxed them all up and just kept them stored where ever I had the room. I think it was about 97 or 98 at this point.
Chris and I met at the end of 99, beginning of 2000. He had heard of the collection, but really only because I had all these boxes, he had never seen them. At our old house in MLT the boxes were up in the attic space, so they more or less got forgotten about. Until we moved almost a year ago.
Since we’ve been in our new place, they’ve been stored in the extra room. We knew that at some point we wanted to go through them and figure out what was there and then put them on ebay or something, but we were doing other things and they were mostly out of the way, so we didn’t really think about it much. This weekend we decided to pull them out and start the process.
This was the first time Chris had ever seen them. It was the first time I had seem them in about 15 years or so. It was pretty fun to look at them. Chris thought it would be fun to post them for all to see, since basically no one had any clue. Then we sorted them, took pictures of each one individually, and made a spreadsheet of the details of each corresponding to their picture. It took HOURS. Literally. But we finally got through them. All 150+ of them.
Now, the plan is to try to look up some info on them and gauge about how much someone might buy them for. I’m not looking to get rich on them, I don’t believe they’re worth all that much, but there may be a few that are a bit more collectible so I don’t want to just give those away. If anyone knows anyone that might be interested in any of them or are looking for a particular female action figure from the 90s, send them my way. We can easily send pictures and details. They are all in their original packages, not in mint condition, but very good condition.
So now you know. I’m not ashamed. It was fun. And in case you may have been wondering…
Yes. I did open up a few of them yesterday to play with. From left to right this is Mystique in Monster Armor, Void, and Elektra with light-up Ninja blade.
Elektra’s Ninja blade does still light up.
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Cuckoo For Hexipuffs
I’ve been making a lot of these lately…
The pile has grown since I took this picture. Eventually, when I have hundreds of them (literally), they will be stitched together into a quilt that looks similar to this…
If you were a hardcore knitter, you would know that this is actually a “thing”…making hexipuffs. Seriously. It’s fun because, as the fabulously talented woman who came up with this pattern (The Beekeeper’s Quilt) and about 8 billion other really, really, really cute patterns said, each puff is a little mini project in itself. Each one takes about 30-45 minutes to make and only takes a small amount (about 16 yards or so) of sock yarn, which is perfect, perfect, perfect for using up leftovers and samples and trades. So, as I am working on a large project, I have the continued satisfaction of completing many small projects to keep me going. It’s also very portable, so I can bring a puff to knit on my lunch break or whatever.
My personal mission, is to make each individual puff out of completely different yarn. This may make it take longer in the long run, but will be so absolutely gratifying in the end. Likely, it will also mean hunting for other hexipuffers to trade with, which is also seeming like part of the fun. I began this project on 1/1/2012, and plan to continue working on it for at least a year or two.
P.S. Did I mention I have a crafting/knitting crush on the creator of this pattern? Check out “Tiny Owl Knits” on my list of links off to the right side —–>, I kid you not, everything this lady puts her hands on is ridiculously lovely.
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