String Factory » spiffy internet things http://www.string-factory.com one woman's obsession with all things Fiber Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:37:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Emporio Armani A-line cabled(?) minidress http://www.string-factory.com/blog/emporio-armani-a-line-cabled-minidress/ http://www.string-factory.com/blog/emporio-armani-a-line-cabled-minidress/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 17:26:15 +0000 Amelia http://www.string-factory.com/?p=137 Attention All Knitting Pattern Designers: I have seen the future. It is this dress:

Emporio Armani Fall 2009 RTW

It’s from the Emporio Armani Fall 2009 Ready-to-Wear collection and I want it.  I want it bad.  That being said, I’m not sure how to construct the damn thing.  Lookie here at this close up of Anna Arendshorst modeling it:

arendshorst-ea-fall2009

I thought those swirly things were cables, but apparently they’re braided bands of 1×1 ribbing that are somehow sewn together, with triangles of plain knit fabric filling out the body.

Hot damn.  I still want one.  I’d knit one long enough to wear in public, or I’d knit a short one like this and wear it with pants.  I wonder if it has sleeves or straps, and what they look like.   Regardless, I would totally wear the F out of that dress.

Oh, dress.  You are so dead sexy.  Be mine.

In other, knitting-centric news, I plan to cast on a Liesel bolero later today, in the misguided hopes of finishing it in time for the Lamb’s christening on Sunday.   (I have a wearable dress for the occasion, but nothing seasonally-appropriate to wear over it.)

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Barbara is in the throes of lambing season, and she’s put tons of amazingly cute lamb videos on YouTube.  This one is my favorite:

Hooray for happy healthy baby lambs!  Hooray for Spring!

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It’s an ad for Samsung LED televisions. AND IT’S AWESOME.

]]> http://www.string-factory.com/blog/extreme-sheepherding-with-leds/feed/ 2 We Rogues of Wool: it’s not just a shirt, it’s a sea shanty! http://www.string-factory.com/blog/rogues-of-wool-knitting-shanty/ http://www.string-factory.com/blog/rogues-of-wool-knitting-shanty/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:03:49 +0000 admin http://www.string-factory.com/?p=10 My friend Kerry sent me a link to a spiffy-looking shirt she found online. Look, a vulture! Riding a sheep! While knitting a scarf!!

We Rogues of Wool

We Rogues of Wool

I poked around, and found this on YouTube:

OMG, it’s not just a spiffy-looking shirt! This guy wrote a sea shanty about knitting! For his webcomic! Which apparently also recently featured the librarian rap battle of the century, for which there is yet another spiffy shirt. (Although I’m really tempted by the sweatshirt–I want to wear it while crunching through leaf-piles this fall.)

As a knitter and sometimes-librarian (when I’m not otherwise occupied with knitting and babymaking) who is also a huge fan of webcomics, I find all of this to be pretty head-explodingly fabulous. Chris Baldwin, you have definitely earned a place in my feed reader. <3

Thanks for the link, Kerry!

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