May 9th, 2006 | 3 Comments
He’s finished! He comes in at exactly 10″ long. Teeny! The patterning on the shell made him a little more box turtle-y and less sea turtle-y, but I can live with that.
Pattern: Turtle, p. 70, World of Knitted Toys, modified
Yarn: Sirdar Snuggly DK (#0377), Plymouth Dreambaby DK (#201), Baby Pure DK (#502), less than 1 skein of each
Needles: 2 sets 16″ Addi Turbos, US 1 (2.5mm)
His name is Fred and I may just have to keep him, he’s so cute.
Eyes were made out of the dreaded Microspun.
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CogKnition posted this on May 9th, 2006 @ 1:57pm in Finished Objects, Toys | Permalink to "Wins the Race"
May 7th, 2006 | 2 Comments
Update 06/16/2006: There was a bug in the code I originally posted. Fix is below. Apologies to anyone who tried to use the old code and couldn’t make it work.
I just installed the percentage bar script from Unlikely Words on my blog, which is a very nice little doodad.
I made a few small modifications to the script. The script as originally written allows you to specify a different width and different colors for each percentage bar if you want to.
Being that I am lazy and boring, I don’t want to, nor do I want to have to re-specify the same width and the same colors for each bar. So I streamlined a bit and also updated the <script> tags so they’re compatible with the XHTML 1.0 Strict web standard.
And I added the ability to customize the color of the border around the bar.
If you’re like me and are perfectly happy to have each bar the same, except for the percentage of color filler, then you can use the following code instead. Download this file: drawPercentBar.txt
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CogKnition posted this on May 7th, 2006 @ 3:31am in KnitBlogging | Permalink to "Simplified Percentage Bar"
May 6th, 2006 | Comments Off
Author: Kath Dalmeny
Publisher: David & Charles
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Buy World of Knitted Toys on Amazon.com
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
You will find patterns for all of the above (p. 99, 23, and 81, respectively) and many, many more creatures in World of Knitted Toys.
The book contains 45 different projects and a few variations on a theme. The finished creatures are generally adorable with nice proportions. Kath Dalmeny gleefully branches out from the world of knitted bears and sheep to give us kangaroos, rhinoceros, wombats, and Mounties.
Mounties?
Yes, there’s a pattern for a Canadian Mountie.
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CogKnition posted this on May 6th, 2006 @ 9:38pm in Book Reviews | Permalink to "World of Knitted Toys"
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