Hm. For some reason that doesn’t sound quite right. It’s appropriate, though. I worked diligently on the Figgy Pudding sock on Saturday, most of Sunday. At one point I had almost this much knitting done, didn’t like what I had, ripped it back to the ribbing, picked up the stitches, and started over.
Then it […]

The shawl hasn’t been growing much of late, what with my push to finish up the sweater. It has been growing, though. Some. Actually, I’m only 1½ repeats away from finishing up the center motif, which means I’m a little more than two-thirds done with the center portion of the stole. After the center portion […]

Emerald in emerald
Though I haven’t exactly blogging much this week, I have been knitting. I finished up the neckline ribbing on Emerald yesterday, bound off, grafted the underarm stitches, and began weaving in ends. The weaving bit will take a little while, though it shouldn’t take a lot of time. There aren’t that many ends, […]

I’m clearly still catching up on the sleep I missed last week. Gads. Do you, or have you ever, suffered from insomnia? For about ten years (well, maybe eight) I suffered from insomnia the second (or was it the third?) week of September every year. That was odd. I don’t know what caused it. I […]

I’ve begun knitting Emerald’s yoke and raglan decreases. There are a lot of stitches on the needles right now, because of it. It’s funny, though. It looks (and feels) like there are more stitches than there really are.

What you’re seeing is both fronts, the back, and both sleeves all being knit up at once. […]

From now through the end of the month, if you’re on Ravelry you’ll occasionally see my small advertisement on the My Notebook pages. The ad links to my Garden Party pattern on Ravelry—as of this moment 170 people on Ravelry have put that pattern in their queue. Woot! I’ve been wondering about doing this for […]

Most of my knitting this weekend felt like I was taking two steps back for every one forward. I even managed to get quite the knot in my yarn. Dave was a little startled when I suddenly tossed my needles and lace knitting onto his lap, and ordered than he not let anything happen to […]

Wasn’t I surprised last night when I finished up the first sleeve, and cast on for the second one? You could have knocked me over with a feather. I didn’t think I’d gotten that far so soon. It’s just one more example of how quickly things knit up with the larger needles. Now the sweater […]

I’ve been tinkering a bit today. This morning I added a small sidebar to all of my pattern pages that has text links to all the other pattern pages. In addition, I changed the Diamonds in His Shoes and Forget-Me-Not pattern pages. I removed the patterns from those pages, forcing people to download the free […]

I’ve been tagged. Not just by one person, but by two. For the same meme. I know it’s taken me a while to get back to you, Christina and Angela, but I finally have. Thank you both very much for thinking of me! Here are the rules:

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