Madeline Knits

coocoonuts: newspaper yarn :: green upgrader

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:50:42 -0700

coocoonuts:

newspaper yarn :: green upgrader

Get your heart out of the gutter. iheartmyart: Alessandro...

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:45:40 -0700

Get your heart out of the gutter.

iheartmyart:

Alessandro Reggioli

Is it wrong that these make me hungry?

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:05:14 -0700

Is it wrong that these make me hungry?

DIY: do or die. craftgasms: copper—boom: Egg carton flower...

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:03:23 -0700

DIY: do or die.

craftgasms:

copper—boom:

Egg carton flower lights

Amazing! Would prefer Secret Cinema to Fight...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:13:16 -0700

Amazing! Would prefer Secret Cinema to Fight Club.

hrtbps:

Secret cinema found beneath Paris

In September 2004, French police discovered a hidden chamber in the catacombs under Paris. It contained a full-sized movie screen, projection equipment, a bar, a pressure cooker for making couscous, a professionally installed electricity system, and at least three phone lines. Movies ranged from 1950s noir classics to recent thrillers.

When the police returned three days later, the phone and power lines had been cut and there was a note on the floor: “Do not try to find us.” (via)

Delicacy. acheverton: “Natural leaf carving is actual manual...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:11:36 -0700

Delicacy.

acheverton:

“Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface without cutting or removing the veins.”

30 Days of Yarn: Days Six and Seven

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:21:27 -0700

Day 6: What is your favorite piece that you’ve knit?

I wish I had a picture… A super sweet sweater right out of the pages of “Tacky Sweaters Weekly” (if such a magazine existed)

I used bright DK yarn and every fair-isle motif I could find and combined them to create a bright super-dork cardigan. It’s my winter go-to.

Maybe I can take a picture and post it later after work. If I remember…

Day 7: Your least favorite?

I tried to knit a skirt from an issue of Knit Digest but I swapped out the yarn/needle size and tried to make it work with sport weight hemp and it was just TOO tight and not flattering.

I hate it when you see something that looks awesome in the magazine and then when you finish and try it on you realize that you’re a totally different shape…

Ugh. I still need to frog that so that it doesn’t sit in a drawer and depress me from afar. Maybe I can turn it into a shopping bag.

Photo

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:12:11 -0700

This screams “quilt me” gypsyism: Gaia by...

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:09:26 -0700

This screams “quilt me”

gypsyism:

Gaia by ~TlachtgaDreamArtist

Must… organize… craftgasms: (by...

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:06:32 -0700

Must… organize…

craftgasms:

(by sophieisobeldesigns)

I want to dive head-first into this pile and writhe around like...

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:20:55 -0700

I want to dive head-first into this pile and writhe around like a cat in a sunbeam.

craftsahoy:

thisisalovenote:

i love crochet, it’s completely underrated

This is the coziest looking photo I’ve ever seen. Hooray crochet!

huh. That’s one to think on. stitch-please: This is how...

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:16:13 -0700

huh. That’s one to think on.

stitch-please:

This is how I feel right now.

My physics TA frustrates the living daylights out of me.

awesomenesssaveslives: Constellations by paperandglue on...

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:32:07 -0700

awesomenesssaveslives:

Constellations by paperandglue on Flickr.

Tell it like it is, Panda.

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:25:04 -0700

Tell it like it is, Panda.

30 Days of Yarn: Days Three, Four and Five!

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:43:55 -0700

I’m pretty terrible at tumbling on time.

My 30 days of yarn may be spread out over several months. (But nobody said which days they had to be!)

So here are three-in-one.

Do you have any other WIP’s?

Always. Two afghans, a few pairs of socks, and strange granny squares just laying about waiting to strike up some inspiration… but they aren’t the important ones.

Plus, there’s always a half-written pattern laying about somewhere with a wonked-out swatch that badly needs to be frogged and re-assessed seven times until it actually looks like it’s what it’s supposed to.

But then, isn’t that life?

And, to cop out on the next two days:

How did you learn how to knit?

And

How long did it take from the time your learned how to knit, to finish your first project?

I… uh. I seem to accidentally answered those when I tackled Day One. So there!

Work of art! ilovecrochet: haybinkunduz: A crocheted version...

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:37:20 -0700

Work of art!

ilovecrochet:

haybinkunduz:

A crocheted version of Chicken!

This is amazing. I saw these a year ago or so, and really loved the work. This one is part of a series by artist Laurel Roth. You can read more here.

I love this pattern. (And the color...

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:34:55 -0700

I love this pattern. (And the color choices!)

ilovecrochet:

Wool Eater Blanket Progress by sarah london textiles

30 Days of Yarn: Day Two

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:43:00 -0700

What is currently on your needles?

Hope these days don’t need to be consecutive :)

—

Black Cascade Eco+.

Hard to say exactly what it is yet. An idea? A stupid dream?

A personal vendetta, maybe.

We’ll see.

Could end up an improvement on the world.

Or an embarrassment.

Knit for the best, or get frogged like the rest, I guess.

Current status: Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:40:00 -0700

Current status: Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

30 Days of Yarn: Day One

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:42:54 -0700

What was your first finished project?

When I was seven, and my grandmother taught me how to knit, I used her leftover yarn to make coasters as practice. So my first finished project was definitely a coaster of some kind — probably in a bright color, and definitely garter stitch.

The reason I can’t remember is that I kept on spewing out coaster after coaster, until we had five times the number of coasters that we actually had drinks in the house.

I used up all her leftover yarn from projects, and she had to start buying me big balls of acrylic from the store so that I wouldn’t try to turn her cashmere into coasters.

After about a year, I had an entire closet full of these sad, acrylic, garter-stitch coasters, that had never actually lived out their purpose.

That was my problem. I couldn’t let anyone actually use the coasters because I was too afraid they would leave sticky juice or tea on them. Gran tried to tell me they were washable but I stacked them all away in my closet, in neat little piles, where they would never get hurt or sticky.

So, like I said, after about a year, Gran finally told me I had to do something with the coasters. She said I either had to start using them, or I had to frog them and knit them into something useful. Which is fair, she didn’t give me that yarn or teach me to knit so that I could shove it into a closet and forget about it.

I laid them all out on the bed, and I couldn’t figure out what to do. I couldn’t decide which to keep and which to frog… Which is when Gran had an idea that solved the issue completely: She went and got two darning needles and a ball of acrylic, and we sat and watched old movies and began to sew all the squares together.

All in all, it took us another three months of old Bogart and Hepburn films to actually piece the entire blanket together, but we did it.

So that’s the first thing I ever knit, I guess. A coaster, and then a lot of coasters, and then a beautifully mis-matched patchy blanket, that I still have to this day.