It’s getting to be decision time in lap blanket land. The blanket is now considerably longer than it is wide, and if I follow the pattern exactly, this won’t change appreciably. I’ve been considering knitting four-ridge bands all the way around and inserting mitered corners so that I can use up as many small bits […]
I especially hate spam in my comments. Please.
Whoever you are who is leaving spam in my comments (eleven of them in the last two days), please save yourself some time, and me some frustration. I am now using a service that catches your spam messages so that they will not be made public. Ever. […]
What is your
favorite kind of reading? Novels? Biographies? Mathematical textbooks? Novels: fantasy, mystery, science fiction, selected general fiction. Not necessarily in that order. I don’t read biographies. I do occasionally read non-fiction. Sometimes it doesn’t have a thing to do with knitting. A friend gave me a wonderful book about gardening once—not how to garden, […]
Today’s SBQ was suggested by Carolyn and is:
How do you share your finished pieces with others? Do you frame them, scan and/or photograph them, or do you have another method that you would like to share?
I photograph them, post the pics here and on my stitching pages. Do I frame them? Would that I could. […]
Turns out, he’s famous. Well, his picture’s on a web page, anyway. An artsy one, which is totally cool. Mike sent me this link today. Turns out, the day that they did this show, Mike and his son Griff were the only ones who sold a thing! You go, Mike!
Had to do it. The choice was either spend an hour and frog the rest of the sweater, or stop knitting. What kind of choice is that? I mean, really. So, with Coco’s help, I frogged the sweater and wound the yarn onto my swift. Then rolled it into a nice neat cake.
Then I started […]
As Jenna predicted, I can’t really go any further until I frog the rest of that old sweater. This is all the yarn—of that color, the main color, the reason for this project—that I have left. Yup. That’s it. Just two small balls and an even smaller pile that’s not big enough to bother winding. […]
It’s been a year since Hurricane Katrina hit the South. Be sure to read Deb’s post. Thank you for sharing all that, sweetie. If you know anyone who’s lived through a major earthquake or firestorm, you’ll know that the insurance companies don’t treat them any better. I hate insurance companies. They’re a blight on our […]
Stepsisters from The Silver Lining
I finished up all of the top, right side of the blue flower. There is an awful lot of confetti stitching in there. Also finished that huge old green leaf between the top of the two flowers, including outlining it. And I got a good start on the lavender pansy. It’s […]
Blanket
My lap blanket grew by maybe one or two garter ridges all weekend. Not a big surprise, really. The project lives here in my office, and I was hardly in here all weekend. I’ve knit eight of eighteen garter ridges of block eight. After this, only two more blocks and a border to go.
I […]