Out by the boxcar waiting...

Guerilla knitting!

I wish I lived in NYC or some other metropolis, because I can't even describe how happy I'd be if I saw a little bit of fuzzy graffiti in my own hometown. Yes, I'm a total sucker for just about anything made by hand using needles and yarn. I've started a new knitting project myself. It's just in the baby stages, but it will end up being a loose knit sweater. This yarn is mohair and it feels just like knitting angel hair, especially with the colour being light pink with silver sparkles.

Maybe someday I'll graduate up to doing something as epic as the 66Sick DIY Rodarte dress. Yeah, keep dreaming Isabel.

Plants and Rags

Just a quick update before I make the mad dash back to school. My life is a commuted existence... Well, earlier in the week I mentioned that I already had another copycat knitting project in the works so here is a sneak peek. This is the very beginnining stages of thick and lovely YOKOO-style cowl in winter white.


On the day I epic thrifted those two pairs of Doc Martens, I also found this fish sweater. I am in love.

on a perfect stream of love and drink

Oh, whats that? I've finally finished knitting my own Rodarte copycat sweater?? Yes, it's true!

Last time I updated on the knitting project, I had finished the body but not the sleeves. Now the whole shebang is finally complete. :)

It may not have the same rips, snags and holes as a real Rodarte would, but I knitted it by myself and I'm damn proud. In fact, I'm already thinking about what my next copycat knitting project will be...

When there's nothing in it and you ask yourself.

Remember the Rodarte-inspired sweater I was knitting? No, its not quite done. But its getting there! I have yet to finish the sleeves but it sure makes a great sweater vest. Since I'm going back to school soon and won't be able to finish the sleeves for a few months I wanted to wear it anyways and kill two birds with one stone by giving you a 'progress report' and an 'outfit of the day'.

sweater: self made, scarf: knitted by my mom, skirt: thrifted, tghts:American Apparel and I pretty much adore them.

The wool is super stretchy, which is nice for achieving that hole-y look I was going for. Once the sleeves are on, it might even be reminiscent of Vivienne Westwood's early punk designs! (Which, for the life of me, I cannot seem to find a picture of.)

I have to say, that I really love knitting. I'm not very advanced - this is the first non-scarf that I've ever knitted (and without a pattern, at that) but I am incredibly pleased with the early results of this sweater and knitting might just end up one of those hobby that sticks with me my entire life.

Touch Me I'm Sick

I've been doing a lot of knitting lately. Using Rodarte as a reference point, I'm up to the armholes of my very own hole-y sweater. It isn't nearly as destroyed as the original but I'm hoping it will look how I want it to after the requisite wear and tear.

The colours are pretty distorted by the flash here (and much too dark in the non-flash pic), but you get the picture. I'm using a lovely blue/gray/burgundy variagated wool on 10mm circular needles in case you were curious about all that technical stuff.




Good news for non-knitters, you can buy your own Rodarte-esque sweater on eBay for only slightly more than what I'm paying for wool!