Fame at last!

Hey, machine knitters - go check out Ravelry's front page eye-candy today. Six gorgeous machine knits featured!

And to those who say it's cheating - this from Bev: "My hands turn the handle, that winds the yarn, that goes to the machine, that my hands move the carriage, that knit the garment, that my hands sew up to warm the body that Bev has-la-la!" . Not to mention the choosing of the yarn, the swatching etc.

Current mood: amused

Ravellenics medals

We had our own little mini-competition within the Ravellenic games, with categories for machine-specific events:

• Alpine Accessories- including colour changer, shadow transfer tool, garter bar MKRG14alpine
• Biathlon - Combine: punch a new card or use DAK etc then make the project MKRG14biathlon
• Freestyle - any new technique that hasn’t been tried on your machine MKRG14freestyle
• Luge - lace carriage MKRG14luge
• Nordic Combined - Fair Isle MKRG14nordic
• Pattern hockey Knock-off - converted to MK from any source MKRG14ko
• Purling (curling) - hand manipulated stitches MKRG14purling
• Short track tuck MKRG14tuck
• Skeleton - using the ribber MKRG14ribber
• Speed socks all sorts MKRG14socks
• Steek jumping MKRG14steek
• Super G - for garter carriage MKRG14gc
• Synchronized machine skate Knit leader/radar - complete project(s) using your knit leader/radar MKRG14kr-kl
• Weave-a-thon - complete a knit-weave project MKRG14weave

Edit to add: These are the ones I "won". The official Ravellenics ones aren't out yet.

Just wanted to say...

...that the top "ravthlete" in last month's Ravelympics was Machine knitting's own Grammylove, with a total of 33 completed projects. Second place went to Coffeeandcream, 32 hand-knitted projects.

Rise of the Machines, indeed.

Well done to all who took part, including the mods that kept everything running behind the scenes.

Finished the second mini-mochi sock this morning, will take them for a test run this weekend I expect. Swatched some 2x2 rib for the Cog's new jumper. This time around it's going to be set-in sleeves and a round neck. Raglans + ribbing is just too time-consuming.

Current mood: happy

Showing off my medals!

I'm a Ravthlete! :D

My collection of medals - most were entered for TeamMk (Rise of the Machines), and one item, the hand-knitted waistcoat I added a machine-knitted back to, for TeamGB. Despite some visits from the machine gremlins, it was a very productive two weeks and motivated me to really make inroads into my stash.

Many thanks to Ozlorna for all her hard work in keeping us organised as team captain.

FO: Blue hat for the Cog

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Originally uploaded by steel breeze

Ribbing is a bit loose on this one, but he seemed happy enough with it.

FO: Charity tee with magicolor

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Originally uploaded by steel breeze

This is made from some oddments of yarn including DB Magicolor and Kauni EQ.

FO: Scarf/stole

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Originally uploaded by steel breeze

It was supposed to be a stole, but it came out quite narrow, so it's a fancy scarf instead. Made on the Brother 260 in Austermann Starlight, which is a ladder yarn.

FO: Easy Passap socks with silver

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Originally uploaded by steel breeze

Made with Fyberspates sock yarn which has silver in it - sparkly!

We shall not speak of the troubles with the second sock, and the dropped stitches that were repaired.

Entered in the sock hockey and samalog Ravelympics events.

NOW - I'm off downstairs to make me a Ravelympics t-shirt. Yes, I'm THAT sad!! :)

FO: Half a Muppet scarf

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Originally uploaded by steel breeze

Knitted on the Brother KH260 in 1x1 rib. Very slippery!

FO: Patons Parade waistcoat

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Originally uploaded by steel breeze

Hand-knitted fronts, machine-knitted back. Started in 2008, and finished for the WIPSdancing event for Ravelympics 2010.

Hoping to use the rest of the black (a boucle with neon accents) for a sleeveless top at some point.