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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Sizzle

I’m getting there. Sizzle is almost done. But I’ve been shawl swatching, so Sizzle’s temporarily taken a back seat. It’s all blocked out. It’s even dry. All I need to do is sew up the sides and weave in the ends.

Bourne
I’m not sure how it came up. Oh wait. I remember. Dave was telling […]

Though there’s still plenty to tell you about our trip to Montana, I thought it was high time I got a little more knitting content inserted into this blog.
First up. Yes. I have been knitting! When I started the lace scarf over Thanksgiving everything else got dropped like a hot potato. Now that the […]