I got a newsletter from KnitPicks yesterday evening. One of the two books featured is a new one from knitwear designer Louisa Harding called Modern Classics. The thing I find interesting here, especially relating to my last post yesterday, is that in Louisa’s new book there’s a pattern for a sweater with a single cable […]
I’ve received two knitting e-newsletters in the last couple of days. To recap…
Berroco
This week’s newsletter from Berroco features a couple different ripple scarves. If I were in the market for a nice warm scarf, I might consider making one of these Pastiche 2 scarves. It looks easy enough to be fairly mindless knitting, while being […]
Drat and double drat. I’ve been planning on knitting Eunny’s Bayerishe socks for my Socktoberfest project, but that is not going to be the case. The only sock yarn I have that’s the right gauge is lovely stuff, dark blue with a white twist, but 1. it’s cotton, and 2. that dark-light thing would hide […]
When she was here, I asked Mom what to do about those other two corners. She said to forget them, just start on the border. Good! A decision. Whoohoo! After Mom went home the other day, that’s exactly what I did. I picked up stitches around the entire perimeter of the blanket, including three stitches […]
As you can tell, I got a bee in my bonnet this morning, and changed my blog a bit. I’m not done yet, but I’ve done enough for today. Now I get to do something else. Like post a thing or two. Here’s what the sky looked like before the sun came over the hills […]
Today’s SBQ was suggested by Sharon and is:
When you find yourself making a lot of mistakes in various stitching projects do you find it better to muddle your way through or do you take a brief break from stitching? If you do take a break, how long do you take?
If I find myself making a […]
As you can see, my blog is no longer gray. The last few days the gray has been bringing me down, in spite of the brilliant green highlights. So, now we’re white, pink, and green, with a pretty flower. There are still a number of things I need to fix, so please bear with me […]
I finished the knitting part of my Stone Patch sweater in late July. Since then it’s been a very sad, button-less sweater. While Mom was here, it wasn’t hard at all to talk her into going over to Velona to help me pick out buttons—when she used to sew when I was a kid, I […]
The fabric on our kitchen chairs has, uh, been wearing out the last number of years. To put it mildly. Of a set of six chairs, five look like this one. The sixth one looks fine, because 1. it’s the captain’s chair, and 2. the rungs are broken and sitting in it would probably land […]