Pattern: Siskiyou Trail, of my own devising.
Yarn: Louet Gems Fingering, Burgundy.
Needles: US 1 (2.25 mm).
Skills: Knitting in the round, k2tog, ssk, s2-k1-p2sso, yo.
Notes: Named for the Siskiyou Trail, a Native American trail that wound its way through central California’s valleys up into Oregon, and was used by settlers as the shortest path from […]
New from Cat Bordhi
Cat Bordhi has written the second book in her New Pathways for Sock Knitters series: Personal Footprints for Insouciant Sock Knitters. I don’t know about you, but I’m definitely looking forward to getting my hands on this book. I love a lot of the socks in the first book in this series, […]
Eight years ago today our country was shaken by terrorist attack. I had this picture and quote on my old web site for a long time. It felt right to bring it back today. In remembrance.
A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest […]
Organizing
Last week I got a bee in my bonnet, and finally rearranged my under-counter shipping center. In the last year or so my focus has changed from shipping individual patterns to sending out great lots of them, and the previous “shipping stuff” arrangement no longer suited. Now it’s all nice and neat again. I even […]
Pattern: Thornbury, of my own devising.
Yarn: Valley Yarns 2/14 Alpaca Silk, Pacific.
Needles: Size US 6 (4.0 mm).
Finished size: 10 x 63 (24 x 74.5) inches; 25.4 x 160 (61 x 189.25) cm.
Skills: Lace knitting, including p2tog, p3tog, and SSP.
Notes: The Thornbury pattern is written as both a scarf and a stole. It’s […]
After a yummy stuffed pork chop dinner and a movie, we wandered out onto the deck last night for a short nightcap and to enjoy the evening air. Ricki loves evenings on the deck. She was out there and waiting for us long before we had everything arranged. We finally got our ducks in a […]
I haven’t been blogging, obviously. Sorry about that. I’ll post as I can, as much as I can, as often as I can. Not that the schedule’s likely to change much in the near future. I hope you can hang with me…
Thornbury progress
I’ve made marvelous progress on the oriel shawl. I’ve done several repeats […]
The oriel shawl
Finally. It took quite a bit of figuring, tinking, knitting, tinking, erasing, and figuring, but I finally got it. The top edge of the bias-knit pattern looks full, complete, as good as the center of the thing. Finally. I spent days with scrap yarn, and charts coming out of my ears. Well, it […]
No. Not the whole thing. Probably. But a goodly chunk of it. Never mind that I didn’t pin it out very well. That’s easily fixed later, when the knitting is actually done. But see that top edge, after the corner turns? I don’t like it. It isn’t working for me. At all. You can sort […]
Pattern: Sevilla, of my own devising.
Yarn: Fibre-Isle Fine Yarns, Kami Bison, 2 hanks of Bleuice.
Needles: Size 4 (3.75 mm); crochet hook for provisional cast on.
Finished size: 27.5 x 69 inches (pattern written in two additional sizes: a scarf and a narrower, longer stole).
Skills: Lace knitting, provisional cast on, grafting.
Notes: This shawl starts […]