Persevere
When last we left the hat, I was wrestling with the perpetual brimmed hat question...will my laziness win out? Or will I conquer the deep folded brim. Four full inches of 1 by 1 twisted ribbing later, I can proudly say I was victorious. It looks ridiculous when it's left [...]
Tempest (review and giveaway)
My love affair with SweetGeorgia yarns is well documented. I've used it in three of my books (it's on the cover of the most recent one), and there may well be a SweetGeorgia project on one of my sample knitters' needles right this very moment. So, when I heard that [...]
Perfectly Normal
Someone reassure me that it is perfectly normal to have 'block the knits you plan to photograph on the trip' as a step on one's adventure planning checklist. Everybody does that, right? That's the blue socks you've all been asking about and the purple hat and mitts from last winter. [...]
How to Knit a Hat
The hat is underway. The hat, destined as it is to have a nice deep brim, begins with an almost interminable stretch of 1 x 1 twisted ribbing. The hat is whispering to me how much more interesting life will be when I start the patterned bit, and I am [...]
Worth the Wait
Sometimes it takes a little while for the perfect yarn and the perfect project to meet up. That's not a bad thing. That is, in fact, why we have stashes. You have to be well supplied when inspiration strikes. I got this delightful mountain of yarn from Christine of Skeinny [...]
Lifecycle
Once, long ago, I took a weekend trip. It was cold, so I made a hat. I had a tiny bit of yarn left, so I made some very very wee cuffs to go with it. Then, as is the way with knitted things, I wore the heck out of [...]
Precise
Do you see that? That wee little tuft of fluff on top of that finished bit of knitting? That, my friends, is the sum total of the remaining yarn. I didn't quite use every inch (there are about 6 feet remaining), but there wasn't enough to do even one more [...]
Protective
The blue thing has grown (erm, it's all lowering clouds and sunset glow here, hence this seeming to be a rather enthusiastically different color than in the last picture...I don't love you all enough to fiddle with the color on a blog picture, sorry). This is tremendously uncharacteristic knitting for [...]
Forethought
This weekend, for the first time this season, it was well and properly cold. Not cool. Not brisk. Not chilly. Cold. As in, the temperature in the house was markedly lower than where we keep the heat set in the winter. Of course be haven't turned the heat on yet [...]
Sheep-y (review and giveaway)
When I set out to take this picture, it took me several minutes to assemble all the various bits. I knew where the camera was, and I knew where the wee gray basket was (in the pile of photo props on the third shelf of the yarn closet, of course, [...]
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