The problem with furious knitting and no solid plan is that eventually you’ll run up against a wall. Like I did yesterday. I’m at the point in my shawl that I need to start the border. And I only have a vague idea of what to do next. Facing this, I did what I should […]

I frogged the whole second section of bees on Friday. Re-knit them on Saturday. Plus 5 rows yesterday. Overall, it’s not much forward motion, but it feels good. I’m glad I frogged those rows. I would have been irritated by the lack of symmetry forever after if I hadn’t—which is funny, as I often go […]

First off, I want to thank each and every one of you who came out of lurk-dom to leave me a comment over the last couple of days. I truly appreciate the effort you took. It made my day. Truly.

In fact, I felt so good that I finally felted the clogs I knit back […]

Yup. I’ve been busy. The charts for the latest lace, the clover one, whose working title is currently In the Summer Shade, have been taking tons of time. Mostly because I keep forgetting stuff—like, it’s sort of important to somehow indicate that the outer two edge stitches are supposed to be garter stitch. Yeah.
But […]

I’ve been working fiendishly on the new triangular shawl this week, between everything else that’s been going on. Instead of going back to the brown dress—I held it up to my neighbor, and though she’s considerably shorter than I am, she’s much longer waisted, and it does not need to be ripped out—I’ve been dragging […]

I’m not done knitting my own second sock yet, but I’m far enough that I’m confident the bugs are out of the pattern. So, the second pattern release of the week gives us Línea de la Playa. This sock pattern is knit from the top down, and comes in three sizes. The stitch instructions are […]

You’ve seen the pictures. Now you can get the pattern from my pattern shop or on Ravelry. Kristie kindly test knit it for me, and pronounced it ready.

I’ve been working on the next shawl design off and on for a while now. I nailed down the stitches I want to use for the body of the shawl way back in early December. Then got stuck. This shawl didn’t know for the longest time if it wanted to be a rectangle or a […]

The competition was fierce, but the scarf name poll had one clear winner, one that I happen to like quite a bit: cirrus. Like the cirrus clouds the scarf is light and fluffy. There’s one picture in particular on Wikipedia that’s perfect. It shows cirrus clouds behind the Golden Gate Bridge—the clouds wave back and […]

I got a ton of great suggestions for the scarf name yesterday and this morning. Originally I was going to let the first poll go for a few days, but I got so many ideas in the first day that I thought it would just get confusing if there were more. I got two votes […]