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3,000 bus tickets + 6 hula hoops = ???

By on May 17, 2012 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Hey everyone! Remember the Garbage Fashion Show I mentioned last month? I found a photo of the winning entry and thought I’d share it here: (source) Isn’t it amazing? Violet Patrich is the designer of this impressive dress, made up of three thousand used bus tickets. Every time you take transit in Vancouver you use [...]

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Sneak Peek…

By on May 2, 2012 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Just a little tease of what’s coming up in the next week! Here are some photos that I’ve cropped to show only a hint of what’s to come. Come back on Friday for the big reveal! I’m so mean, I know. I’m not usually so well prepared to be able to offer sneak peeks, that’s [...]

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Pink Pullover, or Sometimes You Don’t Know Until You Wear It…

By on April 30, 2012 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Hey, another sweater! This is my first sweater with more to it than just miles and miles of basic stockinette (plain knitting) stitches. This is also the last of the knitting project updates for a while. We’ll be back to sewing content very soon! The pattern is Petra, by Quince and Co. Quince and Co [...]

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Starry Night Sweater

By on April 27, 2012 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Is it summer yet, where you live? Here it’s starting to slowly get warmer, but the wool sweaters aren’t packed away quite yet. Good thing, as I just finished knitting a cosy wool pullover with a huge collar! I’ve called it the Starry Night Sweater because it sounds pretty. (Much better than the ‘oh crap, [...]

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Red St. James

By on April 24, 2012 in Inspiration and Everything Else

So nice, I made it twice! This is the second sweater I’ve knit, and I’m happy that it gets easier when you make the same pattern a second time. The first time took me about four months – blogged here, My First Sweater! – and the second time it took me closer to a month. [...]

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Smart Cookie

By on April 19, 2012 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Hey, everyone! Thought you might get a bit of a laugh at the fortune in my fortune cookie: Even fortune cookies somehow know that I sew too much frosting and not enough cake! How appropriate. (I think I love opening fortune cookies more than I like eating them. What it is about a message on [...]

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