The end of last week and Saturday kept me very busy charting, re-charting, and knitting on not just a swatch, but the real McCoy. I cast on 413 stitches, and merrily knit the setup row plus ten pattern rows before I retired on Saturday evening. I awoke some time during the night and realized something. […]
I’m continuing to work on the swatches for the Posh shawl. Here’s a long swatch, in my style, piling one stitch pattern on top of another, as I’m too lazy to bind off and start again just because I’m changing stitches.
The bottom of this picture shows a stitch that I dearly love. Not only […]
Posh yarn arrived!
Finally. It took ages for the British and U.S. postal services to do their combined thing and deliver this fiber-y goodness to my doorstep. The yarn from Dee got here on Monday, just in time for me to take it to knit knight for show and tell. It’s so pretty! And soft. Yes, […]
The only thing I currently have on the needles is the secret project I’m working on, and the yarn still hasn’t arrived from Dee at Posh, so there’s a dearth of my own things to share with you. So, here are a couple things that have recently crossed my desk.
Berroco has introduced a new series […]
The dress is done. Border knit on, seam grafted, neckline and sleeves finished, ends woven in. And pre-blocking photos. I really need to get a little slip-on or zip up cover made for Nicole. The sheet adds ugly thickness to lacy little things, but you can get the idea anyway. Since none of these pictures […]
Dare I say it? The dress is almost done. There’s very little of the hemline border left to knit, there are a few more ends to weave it, and the armholes and neckline need to be finished. That’s it. The next day or two will see it done. With any luck…
I hadn’t really thought […]
After finishing up the left front shoulder, I decided that the only thing I could do to the right one was to rip it back, pick up that dropped stitch, and re-knit it. Luckily at that spot the front only had 17 stitches, decreasing every other row down to ten stitches, so really it didn’t […]
As you know, I’ve been trying to clear out my project pile while I’m impatiently waiting for the yarn to arrive from Posh Yarn. Would you believe that except for the secret project everything is done except that brown dress I started more than a year ago? I know. Hard to imagine.
The other thing […]
While I wait for the yarn to arrive from Dee, I’ve been cleaning out my knitting to-do list. The socks, as you saw, were finished last week. The last of the small shop samples got themselves knit up late yesterday. I got four samples out of the one small ball of yarn I had. There […]
The second Línea de la Playa sock is finally finished. It took a while to knit it up, not because it was causing me any trouble—it was a good little sock—but because I used it as my Monday knit night knitting project. You know, when a sock is only knit on once a week progress […]