I am a cat person. Don’t get me wrong. I love dogs. Love them. I pretty much love every furry animal I’ve come across, actually. Total sucker for a fuzzy face and big eyes. Or beady ones. I loved the hamster and hooded rats I had as a youth, too. And the dog we had […]
I’m a couple days late for “B” and the ABC Along. Sigh.
I’m still feeling a bit blue about the blue Mingus sock. I haven’t done a thing with it since I tried it on late last week, and it was, uh, a bit tough to tug over my heel. I really don’t want to […]
I forgot to tell you yesterday that the lovely yarn I’m knitting this sock out of is Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in the Sand Ridge colorway. It’s been in my stash since last summer—I think. When I was digging in my sock yarn stash for a solid yarn to knit a pair of socks out […]
When I saw that the ABC Along had been revived, and that I was in time to get in at the beginning, I had to join. I loved watching everyone play along a couple years ago—has it really been that long?—and it looked like fun to do, so here I am. At “A.”
“A” is for […]
Hello, Diane. Do you want to come over and take a look at my swatches?
I finished knitting around both Sizzle armholes
the other day, and just now finally got around to dunking it in the sink for a good soak.
The plan is to block it out, then sew up the sides, weave in the […]
I saw this over on Brenda’s blog. I’ve been saving it.
What’s your favorite sock yarn? (Please note that the word ‘yarn’ is singular. Just pick one. I know it’s hard.) I really haven’t used all that many different sock yarns. Hm. At the moment, I think my favorite is Fleece Artists’s Basic Merino. It knits […]
I’ve been knitting madly on the latest sock. I’m having a ton of fun with this pattern. The intensely blue yarn definitely adds to the knitting enjoyment. I haven’t knit with anything this bright in a long time. And just look at the lovely patterning. Between the stitch pattern and the color shifts there’s a […]
I’ve had a couple of requests for pictures of the smoke in the air. I actually took one yesterday afternoon, when I thought it was kind of bad. See? No mountains in the distance. This was taken about 4 pm. It was a lot darker outside at that time than it would have been without […]
As Susan so astutely noticed, cables are involved in the stitch pattern for my new socks. At least, cable needles are. No, actually, I didn’t mis-type that. Two cable needles are involved, used at the same time; one stitch goes on one of them, three on the other, and various manipulations ensue. It’s not difficult, […]
With only a little prodding, and the help of the excellent suggestions you provided me, Dave decided on a name for his special socks: Diamonds in His Shoes. The name’s a somewhat obscure reference to Paul Simon’s Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes.
That’s my hubby.
Though I’m not quite done knitting his […]