Archive for the 'Books & magazines' category

Nothing much

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

I don’t have much for you today. The knitting projects have grown. They don’t look much different than they did yesterday, especially the bag, at least not to a camera’s eye.
I did get something fun in the mail yesterday, though. I’ve talked about Book Mooch a number of times, and all the fabulous books […]

Books and…

Monday, May 12, 2008

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 […]

Some good, some not so good

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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 […]

Look! It fits.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

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 […]

Abatement

Monday, April 14, 2008

Because we live in fire country, the county makes us—quite reasonably, I think—cut down the weeds in our yard every year. At least once. On occasion, during wetter years, we’ve had to do it twice; the first time is always mid April, the second time, if required, is usually in August. I think. Unless we […]

Emerald and books

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

After knitting on the new vine stole all weekend, and having Emerald staring at me the entire time, I found a great need to put down the vine and pick up Emerald for a bit. I actually picked up Emerald late on Sunday, then knit like a demon on it yesterday. I got a ton […]

Blue sock

Friday, February 1, 2008

Illusions
It’s interesting, with all that sandy tan color in the yarn how, to me anyway, this is a blue sock. The yarn is Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in Sand Ridge. The color is absolutely perfect with my light blue jeans, which is perfect, because I absolutely live in those pants. I stopped knitting last night […]

A reading challenge

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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 […]

Sizzle is done

Monday, January 21, 2008

As promised, here’s a picture of my completed Sizzle. It’s a horrible picture, taken in the bedroom against the mirror that we do our best to hide with a huge and unwieldy headboard (the thing is ghastly, but I haven’t yet been able to do a thing about it—ugh!). Much better pictures of the nearly […]

Rosy swatch

Thursday, December 20, 2007

This isn’t completely a swatch. The leaves are all knit up and ready to go (I love the leaves). I was even clever when I got to the top, if I do say so myself. Looks just like I wanted it to. If only I could get the right flower pattern for the top of […]