Let me say first and foremost that I love our pine tree. It has long, long graceful needles, tall beautiful candles, and huge cones. It’s a glorious tree. Dave hates cleaning up after the needles it drops every year, especially the ones that fall in the gutter, but thinks it’s okay otherwise. I love our […]
I never miss the Santa Ana winds when they aren’t blowing. Never. I knew they were expected, but not until tomorrow. Like today, they often start at dawn, just as the light of the sun touches the eastern hills. And they blow, gustily, like there’s no tomorrow. I can sleep through almost anything, except the […]
National Knitting Week started in the United Kingdom on Saturday, and goes through this coming Saturday. If you’re lucky enough to be over there this week, be sure to check out the festivities that are happening all over the place, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and everywhere else. Just another reason to get myself to the U.K. […]
The new Knitter’s magazine is out, and I have to say that I’m quite disappointed in this one. So far—now I’ve only gone through the magazine three times so it may change—I only have vague interest in three things: 1. reading Perri Klass’s latest essay, 2. examining how they built the quilt-square bag, and 3. […]
Lilac Basket
Why does it never feel like I make any progress? And this week, it doesn’t even look like it to me. Arg. I’ve started on chart two. Woohoo! You can see my latest progress over there at the top right. The top part of the chart isn’t as fussy, lots of open space, straight […]
The last couple evenings I’ve spent knitting along on my sock. I even got quite a bit of time in on it this morning. I was going to work on Mountain Peaks, but Ricki decided to spend the morning in my lap, and it’s much easier to knit a sock with a twelve-pound cat in […]
Anne sent out a bunch of invitations last night, and as of this morning we have fourteen members in our new red sweater KAL. Wow. I’m excited. No bones about it. She made us a couple of buttons, too, one of which I’ve adopted and put in my sidebar.
I haven’t swatched my red merino […]
Mountain Peaks shawl
I had to pull out the corner of my Mountain Peaks shawl again last night. Second time. I put it aside for a day or two until I have some quiet time with no distractions when I can sit and knit it through. The first time I had way too few stitches at […]
Announcing the Red Sweater Knit Along. After a post or two about red yarn over at Anne’s blog, and one here, Anne and I started talking, and well, a new KAL was born! If you have a hankering to knit a nice red sweater this fall, please join us.
I’m thinking that I need to swatch […]
This from Lolly:
I am interested in hearing more about the stories of your sock yarn stash: Do you have certain patterns planned for some of the yarns? Do you buy yarn and then choose a pattern? Does a certain sock yarn you have in your stash take you back to a certain event (where you […]