I put up a knitting blog, specifically for knitting-related posts and stuff. This includes patterns, pictures and cool knitting links (once I get around to it). But I uploaded my first things to the site today, including a few pictures of finished objects and the rough draft of the pattern for the amigurumi squid I'm making. I know what his name is going to be now. ^_^
But this place will still be for random musings that are connected to knitting, like the fact that I'm WORKING ON A NEW BAG DESIGN!!! I've actually finished designing it and now I'm just test knitting one to see if it works. If it does work, I may either keep it for myself (yeah, I know I'm selfish!) or I may give it away as a gift.
And that was because my sister took the bag I made her for Christmas to school and she said that lots of people wanted one. Well, I'm not making large Fair Isle bags for people without a good reason to do that, so I'm using the pattern I had for hers as an inspiration to create my own... one that's a little bit smaller and won't take me quite as long to make.
And thus the Veritas Fair Isle bag was born. Okay, not literally... the idea came to mind when I was thinking about what to design for the shield motif and I was looking through pictures I had. One of the first things that came to mind (other than one of the hazard symbols, which would be totally awesome, but out of place here) was the Chinese symbol for truth. Not only does it look cool, but it's one of the simpler characters that would fit the shape of the shield well.
For those of you who don't know, I took Latin and veritas is Latin for truth. (It's also where one of my fictional character's surnames comes from.) So yeah... it's a Fair Isle bag. I'm about a third of the way done with the knitting part, so that should be cool. Hopefully it actually works.
But this place will still be for random musings that are connected to knitting, like the fact that I'm WORKING ON A NEW BAG DESIGN!!! I've actually finished designing it and now I'm just test knitting one to see if it works. If it does work, I may either keep it for myself (yeah, I know I'm selfish!) or I may give it away as a gift.
And that was because my sister took the bag I made her for Christmas to school and she said that lots of people wanted one. Well, I'm not making large Fair Isle bags for people without a good reason to do that, so I'm using the pattern I had for hers as an inspiration to create my own... one that's a little bit smaller and won't take me quite as long to make.
And thus the Veritas Fair Isle bag was born. Okay, not literally... the idea came to mind when I was thinking about what to design for the shield motif and I was looking through pictures I had. One of the first things that came to mind (other than one of the hazard symbols, which would be totally awesome, but out of place here) was the Chinese symbol for truth. Not only does it look cool, but it's one of the simpler characters that would fit the shape of the shield well.
For those of you who don't know, I took Latin and veritas is Latin for truth. (It's also where one of my fictional character's surnames comes from.) So yeah... it's a Fair Isle bag. I'm about a third of the way done with the knitting part, so that should be cool. Hopefully it actually works.
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