I got the beard done! Feels like it took forever. LOL I was going to rotate on Sunday, but I’m newly motivated, now that the beard is done, so think I’ll go another week on this one before rotating to the next project, which is looking like it’s going to be Lilac Basket. It seems […]
My husband has a ridiculous wife. I mean, really. Who else do you know who weeps when she’s sorting nuts, bolts, washers, and screws?
A few weeks ago we came home from Mom’s house with a truck full of Dad’s tools and hardware. With the exception of the assorted parts, Dave has integrated it all […]
I got the KnitBits® email yesterday for Borroco’s new patterns for leg warmers, and thought I’d been taken back to the 1980s! Well, except that we didn’t wear them with high four inch heels back then. Well, at least I didn’t. LOL The only place I was caught in leg warmers back then was at […]
I got an offer in the mail yesterday for a new knitting book from Vogue: Stitchionary Vol. 1: Knit & Purl. Okay. This looks fabulous. It has 250 different stitch patterns that they’ve culled from back issues of Vogue Knitting. Some of the samples in the little flyer are totally cool. Plus, if I rush […]
In spite of my good intentions, I have finally admitted to myself that there is no way that I’m going to be able to start any new socks this month, so I’ve removed the Socktoberfest link from my sidebar. Sigh. So many socks, so little time…
I have, however, made good progress on Kiri, and finally […]
Have you ever stitched something as a gift and later realized that receiver doesn’t respect your stitched gift a bit (for example it’s never on show, or you have other reason to suspect that it may even be nonexistent or at least placed in some dark storage room corner)? If so, what have you done? […]
I was happily knitting along on Kiri last night after the debacle of the day before, and looked down to see, yes, you guessed it, a dropped stitch. Sigh. It hadn’t really gone anywhere. Thank goodness. The fuzziness of the yarn stopped it before it did, but it was far enough down there to cause […]
I printed one page this evening, then discovered that I needed to print more. That first page caught Ricki’s eye, so she got up on my desk to check things out. She watched the rest of the pages as they emerged from the printer…
Yesterday evening I tinked (Is the past tense of tink tinked or tank?) back that row I’d knit incorrectly, and reknit it the way I should have done in the first place. It took forever. Tinking fuzzy yarn is not easy, especially when it’s as fine as that! I didn’t get a whole lot done […]
I’ve been knitting right along on Kiri. Having a ball. I know, I know. You’ve heard it before all over other blogs, but it is a fun pattern to knit! I’m almost done with my seventh repeat. Probably would be on row nine or ten by now, but realized more than half way through row […]