ACTuallyKNITting: Actually Knitting Episode 2: In Which the Actress Takes A Break

Notes and Links and Picture-y Goodness

Here's the promised pictured of the oldest and cutest living dog:
Oh, and yes, I photobombed him. He didn't mind too much.

Knitting Segments

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Foilage hat, by Irina Dmitrieva

Made with my knitting rose yarns swiss bloom, in the driftwood color way.

Coffee Cozies: Here is the promised picture of all of them together

In Rehearsals

Boxy, By Joji Locatelli

I should have mentioned that I now have about 10 inches of the stockinette finished, so only about 6 more inches to go. Here's a picture of me working on it backstage during my most recent show. It's great backstage knitting. Awesome wig, huh?

Ho(o)t Coffee, another coffee cozy, for a very lovely person. I don't have a picture of my actual project yet, so I've linked you to the pattern page. My project had to be frogged too many times to get a good picture.

I also talked about some new skills I've learned (relearned) this year:

Emily Ocker Cast On

The above is the picture tutorial I used to learn this method. I tried using a video, but found it too annoying to keep pausing and starting the video again.

Cable Cast On

Very flexible and handy cast on method. I've started using it a lot more lately.

Philosopher's Wool Stranded Knitting Technique

A wonderful way to avoid that thing where your knitting gets really tight when you do color work. No carrying the yarn behind the work.