I was all ready to start talking about my green sweater, when I saw a hawk circling outside my window. I had to stop and watch. Sorry about that little interruption…
I didn’t think it’d be so obvious. Mostly because I totally forgot that my yarn isn’t all from the same dye lot. Hem. It […]
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 don’t know about all of you, but I don’t see my mom very often. The last time I saw her was last Christmas, though thanking the magic of the Internet we are in regular communication via email. Isn’t email a wonderful thing? The main reason we don’t see each other very often is that […]
The stole progresses
I started knitting the border yesterday. I made pretty good progress, too, until I got too tired to knit, made a mistake, then couldn’t find it to fix it. That was my cue to put down the needles for the evening.
I’ve been working up the pattern in fits and starts, massaging the […]
Goodness. I didn’t mean to tease you all so much! I thought I’d told you what Anne suggested, but I guess that’s what I get for doing my own thinking—especially when I’ve been up since 3 am, like I was on Friday when I wrote that post.
Oh yeah. The tip. Before I forget again […]
Waves and shells
As promised here are a few pictures of my ocean-themed shawl. It’s been progressing quite nicely. I think I might even have enough yarn to do everything I want, and get a shawl at least close to the size I had in mind.
As you can see, even without stretching it’s getting quite […]
Knitting things
I was browsing around a bit and saw this Elegantly Simple Baby Blanket pattern, free from Jackie E-S. Here are some other freebies from Jackie.
The forget-me-not socks are pretty well-behaved, but if I’d known about this a month or two ago some serious sock threatening would perhaps have made the Conwy socks go […]
While it is wonderful to have our own servers to use for our web sites, some times it can be a bit of a pain. Especially when Dave is the one who knows how to figure out and fix all the problems (like today’s), and he’s gone. Not home. In meetings. All. Day. But he […]
I know. Most of the time when I find bugs in the garden I certainly don’t find it exciting. At least not in a pleasurable way. But when I found this baby praying mantis playing on my cucumber yesterday morning, I was ecstatic. He’s so cute. I’ve never seen one so small before. I hope […]
It always amazes me what a difference it makes to the finished item when you go down a needle size.
Here you see the new Forget-Me-Not sock knit with size 0 needles resting on top of the completed one knit on size 1 needles. Both have 64 stitches. I lined up the right side of […]