Better
Well lookie there. The power of a little (gentle) public motivation is pretty impressive. Toes. Two of them. Ends all woven in and blocked and everything! We'll just sort of ignore how one toe is distinctly red and the other distinctly purple. That's just the sort of thing that happens [...]
Languish
It's time to finish these up. Well no. It's been time to finish them up for about nine months now. I got this yarn last May, cast on more or less right away, knit one sock with all good speed, knit part of the next sock, wrote the pattern, got [...]
Themes
Apparently it's all cables all the time around here. What can I say, they're just nifty. I can't really help myself. Let's do a little run down of cabled things due out over the next year or so (let's also pretend there's a giant, flashing, obnoxiously insistent asterisk right here [...]
Stubborn
Remember the Alarmingly Perky Yarn from the other day? Well we had a little trial run. It had some rather strong opinions, and so our first go didn't quite work out. But version two is on the needles already, and things are going much more smoothly this time around. I'll [...]
Peregrinate (plus giveaway)
You know when your knitting hits that perfect, meditative place? The spot where your fingers know just what to do and your stitches flow perfectly and all you have to do is sit back and admire your work? Well Peregrinate totally hit that spot for me, and I'm so glad [...]
The Opposite of Fiddly
The last two knitting projects required a fair amount of planning and fiddling and counting and perhaps even some scheming. Which is fine. I'm good at those things and I enjoy them. But I might just be about ready for a knitting project that doesn't require much of that at [...]
This has been a test of the Emergency Kitten Nap System
Had this been an actual emergency kitten nap, pretty much the exact same thing would have happened.
And now we block
So, progress on several fronts. Slippers are done. Cuffs are done. I have a small pile of ends to weave in and then everything needs to be blocked (because wow is there a difference between blocked and unblocked folks, block your knitting), but this is nifty.
Yup
Slipper? Slipper! Still? Uh huh. Still entertained? Uh huh. Feel bad about that? Not even a little. Almost done? 3 rows and a toe to go. Gonna do a pattern? Yup, totally. When? I'll write it soonish, but my guess is it won't be out till the fall. They feel [...]
Phaeodaria (plus giveaway)
You know how sometimes I come along and say 'so I know this looks tricky, but you'll have it down in no time?' Well that's not these socks. Phaeodaria actually are just a tiny bit tricky, but wow are they worth it! The leg? It's one big chart with a [...]
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