There I was. Knitting happily away. And I dropped a stitch. Not just any stitch, mind you, but one of those tricky knit, yarn over, knit, yarn over, knit all in the same stitch things. Great. No way I could get it back. Had to rip back two rows to recover it. Well, three rows. […]
I haven’t been posting as regularly as I would like to, but I have been knitting. Honest. I even got a little knitterly visiting in on Tuesday.
Kristie came over, we had lunch, shared newly made socks, shawl swatches, yarn purchases (hers), and had a good knitterly get together. The Thelonius by Cookie A. socks […]
First off, let me thank all of you (and Anne!) for your wonderful comments, suggestions, and help with my stole project. I spent a lot more time over the weekend swatching and thinking, thinking and swatching, calculating, figuring, wondering, vacillating. Finally, I decided to decide, and made the decision. My shawl is going to have […]
As you know, I’ve been fiddling with yarn and stitch pattern books lately. I keep changing my mind. I decided a while back that I wanted to make an beaded ocean-themed stole. I have the perfect little silver-lined beads. They look like perfect little silvery bubbles of air under water when sunlight touches them. So […]
Though I’ve knit a few rows on Clapotis and the mystery shawl and on the lace swatch, I don’t have anything of note to say, nor photographs to share regarding those projects. Oh, and while we’re briefly on the subject of knitting, if you’re in the Los Angeles area the middle of next month, you […]
It seems like forever since I’ve posted to my blog! I’ve been missing it, and was all set and ready to work on a post yesterday when I discovered the database error that Dave fixed up for me when he got home. Hooray, Dave!
Late last week a friend, Rachel, asked if I’d be willing […]
If it’s not one thing, it’s another… Our server crashed some time during the night, and though Dave managed to get the server back up, part of my Wordpress database got fried—namely the comments portion. So, comments aren’t currently working. At all. Any comments you’ve left previously probably won’t show up. Any comments you try […]
Because of the wonderful Summer Mystery Reading Challenge I’ve found a new (to me) author to add to my list of favorites, Charlotte MacLeod. After finishing her delightful mystery, The Family Vault, I really should have moved on to another new mystery author. After all, I’ve only tried three new authors so far this summer, […]
Not having kids to feed allows Dave and I to have very odd meals sometimes. Like the other night. It was blisteringly hot in here, well over 90F in the kitchen, and neither of us felt like making the room warmer yet by applying heat to food. So we scrounged. Dinner ended up consisting of […]
I’ve been playing. With my knitting stitch books and a ball of yarn. Tinkering. With Anne’s help I figured out how to knit a stitch I thought I really liked, but ick. Way too hard of a maneuver. See that blob down there sort of near the bottom? That’s one of my better attempts. There […]