The pattern for Flower Faire is done.
The pattern is knit from the center toward one edge from a provisional cast on. The second side is knit after the first is completed by picking up the other side of the cast on chain, and repeating the pattern. The pattern is written for three sizes: narrow […]
I was all ready to start talking about my green sweater, when I saw a hawk circling outside my window. I had to stop and watch. Sorry about that little interruption…
I didn’t think it’d be so obvious. Mostly because I totally forgot that my yarn isn’t all from the same dye lot. Hem. It […]
Surprisingly, I hardly got any knitting at all done at Stitches. Almost none, actually. I knit a little bit when H and I were talking in our room, and a little more on Saturday evening, but that was about it. I even took knitting with me to the market figuring I’d hang out in the […]
Let’s see. Where was I? Hm. Oh yeah…
H was a great roommate. We had some marvelous conversations, showed yarn purchases, shared shopping tales. And she was nice and quiet in the morning. She had a class to go to first thing, so was out of the room before I was. I waited around a […]
Wow. Okay. Talk about a fiber-holic’s dream. Now I see what folks are talking about. I can see why people go year after year. And I didn’t even take any classes!
Wanting to get through Los Angeles before the traffic hit on Thursday morning I got up at the stupid hour of 3:30 am, checked […]
I truly wonder sometimes why I bother swatching at all. I’m supposed to get a gauge of 12 stitches in four inches. The size nine needles gave me a gauge of 12.5 stitches. Now, you’d supposed that size ten needles would give a person the needed 12 stitches per inch, right? Or something close, anyway? […]
I made good progress on the Serpentine Mitts yesterday, between lunchtime knitting and the time at the knit get together last night. All four inches of the 2×2 rib, done. First stitches of the thumb gusset and the first cable crossings, done.
I love knitting cables, and I don’t feel like I’ve done much of […]
If you’ve read somewhere, like I have—though at the moment I have no idea where!—that Amanda’s Squatty Sidekick knits up quickly, well, you read correctly. I was amazed how quickly this little bag knit up. I got all the knitting done by Saturday evening, without spending all that much time working on it. I even […]
With finishing up not one but two projects this week, I find that suddenly I have no knitting on the needles. Nothing! Not one little project. Or one big one, for that matter.
What’s a knitter to do?
Well, start something else, of course.
I have this lovely, huge bag of Philosopher’s Wool in a luscious […]
Pattern: Illusions, my own devising.
Yarn: Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock, Sand Ridge, 2 hanks.
Needles: Size 0 (2.0 mm), Crystal Palace bamboo DPNs, set of 5.
Gauge: 8 stitches/inch
Elapsed time: January 22 to February 14
Notes: Once I decided on this stitch pattern, the socks knit up very quickly. The pattern is easily memorized, and I found it to […]