I succumbed to peer yarn pressure yesterday, and cast on for the scarf I swatched over the weekend with the Douceur et Soie from Knit One Crochet Too. Oh. My. It’s like knitting with air. Only softer.
The cables are soft and dreamy. The lace perfection. Because of the combination of knit and purl stitches […]
Well, I can photograph it. That doesn’t take brilliance—point the camera and push the button. But the color? Beyond me. It’s a dusty blue, but rich. If I knew more about color, I’m sure I’d be able to fix it in Photoshop, but no. I know enough about color to really mess it up. But […]
Site move
You may have noticed the complete absence of my blog and/or pattern shop over the last few days. It’s because we moved to a new server, and as the way of such things, our new location takes a bit to trickle through the Internet at large. My other pages are moving today, well, the […]
I still don’t have any current knitting pictures for you. I think I knit a whole two or three rounds on my sleeve yesterday. I was just too tired to knit. Don’t you hate it when that happens?
Without any effort (yesterday, anyway) on my part, I did make progress on Syncopation: I got the edits […]
I finished up a In the Woods shawl chart last night, and was too lazy to print out the next one. Good thing I had a sock to work on!
I’m actually a little farther than this now. I took these pictures two days ago, hoping to use them in my Wednesday post. Hem. I’m […]
Take Jacqui (on Ravelry) for instance. Foster mom. Posh Yarn lover. Knitter extraordinaire. Out of the blue she offered me a hank of Posh’s lace weight yarn out of her stash. I could have my choice. She’d mail it to me. And she didn’t want any money for it. Above and beyond. The post office […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]