A bit of this and that…
It’s the time of year to submit your finished scarves to the Red Scarf Project. If you need a free pattern to knit, there’s a pretty cabled scarf pattern available over on Knitting Daily.
Ahoy, mateys. It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day! Cap’ns Chumbucket and Slappy have two books […]
I blocked and measured my swatch when we were in Palm Springs, but it can be hard to tell exactly how big a lace stole will be when everything’s put together. Last night, after I finished the first full repeat of the fern motif, I moved the whole thing onto a piece of yarn. I […]
Somehow the weekend got away from me—like that’s never happened before—and I didn’t get nearly as much knitting done as I wanted to. The border is coming along splendidly, though I do wish I’d been able to get more time in on it. I really wanted to be farther by now. I’m quite happy with […]
I found a different flower pattern that has a very similar feel to yesterday’s (at a glance it looks almost exactly the same), but is easier to knit, and I like the over all look of it better. I knit several repeats of this new pattern late yesterday, then pulled it all out and knit […]
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 […]
The other day I discovered a KAL I want to join, the Fall Cable KAL 2007. I haven’t actually joined the KAL yet—at least not to my way of thinking—though I did join the group on Ravelry. There are a number of sweater patterns with cables that I want to knit… And yarns to knit […]
South Seas progress
The knitting is done. The grafting is done—all thirteen stitches of it. The ends are woven in—though not clipped. It’s laid out on the floor drying. The color in this set of photos is completely wrong. Not a thing I could do to fix it, either. Oh well. That’s what I get for […]
Color
Kristi (Fiber Fool) is doing a little color research. Here are my answers:
What is your current favorite color? Just one? I was going to say that I’ve never had just one favorite color, but that’s not quite true. It would be more accurate to say that since I became an adult I’ve always had multiple […]
As you know, I’ve been fiddling with yarn and stitch pattern books lately. I keep changing my mind. I decided a while back that I wanted to make an beaded ocean-themed stole. I have the perfect little silver-lined beads. They look like perfect little silvery bubbles of air under water when sunlight touches them. So […]
First off, I thought I’d share a photo I took where you can actually see the beads along the edge of the knitting. I’ve seen quite a few of other people’s photos now, and the best ones for showing the beads seem to be taken at a bit of an angle.
See? Beads. Yummy, sparkly, […]