With the yarn all nicely wound, I was finally able to swatch for the Mystery Stole. I really like laceweight yarn knit up on size six needles, and I just happen to have a KnitPicks set of those (nice and pointy), so I dug them out. I gathered those up with the swatch pattern, instructions, […]
I was finally able to get myself over to my LYS this morning, and asked, very nicely, if I could please use their swift to wind up my yarn. Please. Yes! Score. Now I can finally swatch for the Mystery Stole tonight. Finally. Woot! I wonder if I’ll actually be able to keep myself away […]
Mooching
I got all caught up today at the Book Mooch site. It’s a site where you can trade old books you’ve read for new ones you want. Or new ones you’ve read for old ones you haven’t. Or something like that. I collected up a bunch of books that have been laying around here. Duplicate […]
Progress
I’m making great progress on the first Monkey sock. Having only one knitting project on the go at a time is making a huge difference. No swapping. No desk project competing for time with the upstairs project. Just knitting.
I got five repeats into the thing—instead of the required six—and decided that made a […]
I hate it when I discover that I’ve chosen the wrong needle size. The good news is, though, that I only got three repeats into the Monkey pattern before I realized my error and ripped it out.
After ripping it all the way back yesterday afternoon and switching from my rarely-used US1½ needles to […]
I sometimes think I need to knit more quick projects like this. It’s amazingly satisfying. And now I have this nifty bag to take with me when I remember to go to the farmer’s market on Wednesday mornings. It’ll make carrying all those bags of veggies tons easier.
Pattern: Saturday Market Bag by Jodie […]
Finally. No wonder those forget-me-nots seemed to take so long. They did! Although, if I had chosen the right needle size from the get-go, it would have helped a lot, as I wouldn’t have had to knit three socks. I can finally start my first pair of Monkeys.
I had a dickens of a time […]
Pattern: Forget-Me-Not, of my own devising, free here.
Yarn: Crystal Palace Panda in Periwinkle, 55% bamboo, 24% cotton, 21% elastic. I’d heard that this yarn tends to split. Some people have had a horrible time with it. I had a little trouble with it splitting at first, but after I learned what it wanted, we got […]
The yarn—Cashwool in Pearl from Lane Borgosesia—and beads for the Mystery Stole 3 all arrived in yesterday’s post. I opened up the yarn box from The Loopy Ewe first. Dave was sitting on the opposite couch. As I took the yarn out of its tissue wrapper, he exclaimed. He loves it. While it’s definitely not […]
New
I’ve been working away at the market bag in the evenings. Day before yesterday I finished up the second side, knit the two pieces together, and sewed up one side. Yesterday I sewed up the other side, picked up the stitches around the top, knit the band, and bound off all stitches except those that […]