It doesn’t just seem like it. I really have been getting a lot of books lately. It’s been wonderful! About a one and a half weeks ago I got an old stitch dictionary from Mon Tricot, 1030 stitches. Won it on eBay. It’s a little beaten. It’s a little shopworn. It’s spine has dinks, its […]

The Dulcavina pattern is done. It can be purchased on this page, or if you’re on Ravelry you can get it here.
Off to send out email messages to those who requested them. Thank you for your patience! I hope you enjoy the pattern.

I’m knitting flowers again. Couldn’t help myself. I was pattern stitch diving the other day, came across this flower pattern, and fell in love.

I had to change it a tiny bit, though. See that two-stitch trough between the repeats? You can see up above where I replaced the two reverse-stockinette stitches with one stockinette […]

The second Mingus sock is coming along swimmingly. The gussets are done, so is the first pattern repeat on the foot. The second repeat has begun. Fewer than 30 rows remain before I start the toe decreases. That’s all good.
The not so good part is Tilt. Remember how I got new needles to replace […]

I have to say that I’m very glad I took Dave’s advice on Saturday, and left the house nearly two hours before I was due to meet Anne, Kim (sadly blogless), and Jocelyn in Encinitas for lunch, a little knitterly companionship and fun. Encinitas is a small coastal town about 20 miles north of San […]

It’s one of those basic things. Planned for, knit for, tested, tried and true. But a part of me is still more than a little surprised that the socks I knit actually fit my foot.
I’m sure that a large part of this is because I have short feet, and since my feet got to […]