My STR Lagoon sock yarn arrived only two days after Toni shipped it. Awesome. Ooh, and it’s lovely. So soft. So springy. I love the colors in it. It looks like the colors in a tropical lagoon: deep blues, living greens, and shadowy grays. Even Dave likes the colors, and he usually turns up his […]
It looks innocent enough when it’s sitting there on the cone, doesn’t it? Looks can be deceiving. It’s far from innocent. It’s pretty icky, actually. Just look at what it did to my hand as I wound it from the cone onto my swift. I showed that hand to my father-in-law as he was breezing […]
This cute little black ball of fluff isn’t all that much bigger than Ricki. The difference in their sizes is less than ten pounds.
We really thought (and hoped) that Ricki would play Alpha Cat, and give the Colonel the old one-two, but such is not the case. Ricki’s been living in the master bedroom […]
I’ve been trying to post since Friday afternoon, and have been unable due to blogger server problems. Arg. Oh well.
I decided I’d better jump in on the baby blanket this week, and this is what I have done so far. Actually, now that I look at the photo, I do have a little more […]
Do you stitch “over one?†If so, describe your experiences. If not, have you considered it?
Yes, I do stitch over one. The first project I did over one was The Mad Bluebird for Dave. I stitched it on 28-count off-white evenweave. I loved it. At that size the stitches are like tiny jewels of […]
I finished up my purple socks last night. All the stitches are stitched and the ends woven in. And they fit. Ta da! For those of you who want to know, I knit these socks with Sock Bug’s Sheri’s Lace pattern with purple Opal Uni yarn, and a set of five size 1 double-pointed bamboo […]
Angela, better known as patternnuts, is an angel! When she read that I could no longer find the small floss boxes, she left a comment saying that she’d seen them recently. I told her how to contact me, and she did. Right away. And not only is she sending me the floss boxes that I’ve […]
I have to be bad once in a while, don’t I? I think I do. I’ve been working hard. And I spent the last two weeks of February working absolutely silly hours. I got paid for all that hard work yesterday, so I deserve a tiny little treat. Right? Of course right! I’ve been drooling […]
I’ve been knitting away on my second purple sock. I got the gussets done the other day, and have been knitting happily away along the foot. Only need to do a few more pattern repeats before I can start decreasing for the toe. It’s getting there!
As much as I’d love to immediately cast on […]
Yippee! I have two big, luscious, dark pink flowers on my azalea bush. I know. Two blooms. Doesn’t seem like much, does it? Oh, but it is! I love azaleas, but they don’t seem to love me. Over the years I’ve had (and killed) quite a few of them. Sometimes they’ll make it to the […]