I’ve been moving right along with the Iris Quick Stitch. I now have twenty-two hundred stitches done, which is just over eight percent of the total. Doesn’t seem like much, does it? Well, it is! I did six hundred stitches in the last week, and more since I took this picture. I’m currently going back […]

Meanwhile, since I didn’t like the original cast on method, I poked around for something else. I found this, Judy’s magic cast on for toe-up socks over at Knitty. I tried it. I messed up a time or two—it was three in the morning, so I have an excuse—but finally got it. This time, instead […]

Have you had a happy dance yet this year? If so, tell us about it! (Or just point to the entry that talks about it.) If not, when do you predict it will be?
Ha ha ha ha ha. With three four BAPs on the go, I’m not going to have a stitching happy dance for […]

It’s disgusting. This is ridiculous. The sock is still too big.
Look at this.
I can fold the fabric over the side of my foot.
No matter how you look at it, I have way too many stitches for a comfortable sock.
If I continued knitting with all these stitches, the thing would fall off my foot. […]

When I read Kristie’s comment, the little thought that had been nagging the back of my brain came to the front. I’d continued knitting, and had enough for the next foot test, so I tried it on. Yup. Too big around. Did a little math. Even measured the circumference of my foot—a tad over eight […]

I don’t know yet if this toe-up thing is working for me. Oh, the mechanics of the knitting are fine. But look at this. Look how narrow the sock toe is compared with my foot.
In true knitterly fashion, I’m going to soldier on—for the time being—and continue knitting. I’m thinking maybe one more increase […]

About this time last year I tried to knit a sock using a toe-up pattern. Pretty lace thing. I got the toe started. Started working my way up the foot. Brick wall. Sure the sock looked like the pattern. That was all fine. I had the number of stitches on my needles that the pattern […]

I don’t know if you remember—no real reason you should—but in mid December my dear friend Terri sent me a gift certificate to Stitching Bits and Bobs as a belated birthday present.
Shortly after I placed my order with them I received a note saying that part of my order was backordered, and they’d ship […]

I haven’t done this one for a while. It’s always fun. This time I picked it up from Deb.

Grab the book closest to you.
Open to page 123, look down to the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next three sentences on your blog.
Include the title and the author’s name.

Like Deb, I […]

Sometimes I think I should stop reading other blogs.
It leads to trouble.
I was reading Wendy Knits! this evening, and Wendy showed us a charming little red bead stitch marker that she’s using on her current lace project, so I went and looked.
This is where the trouble actually started.
I shouldn’t have clicked […]