Stitch Definition
The holiday weekend was productive. The Boy's socks are finished and blocked. I'm unreasonably pleased with how they came out. He's quite ready to start wearing them, but alas we must wait until the snow melts and we can get in a quick photoshoot. For you see, I have a [...]
Collate
This is the view from my office door today. I'm pulling together all the various corrections from all the various editors and putting them into one master document that gets sent off to Zoe, the book designer (translation, it's really really really close to done, but it's still going to [...]
Balmy
As I write, we're about 4 hours (and 4 inches) into a nice proper snowstorm. (The picture was taken yesterday when the porch was free of snow. At the moment, it's rather a lot more snow-covered out there, and I feel no obligation at all to go out and document [...]
Brisk
So the stars worked (or, alternatively, it just got to be far enough into December that snow was inevitable, take your pick). It got cold outside. And then, because we don't believe in any of that new-fangled nonsense like windows that haven't lasted through two world wars or insulation composed [...]
Birthday Laze
I am hard at work on the traditional birthday laze fest. I am wearing warm wooly socks, eating tasty food, getting to know a new board game, and generally hibernating all tucked up at home with The Boy (which is exactly how I like to spend the day). As is [...]
Well it’s About Time
You know that moment on a hat? The moment where all you need to do is keep going around and around and around as you've been doing for a while now? And there's nothing else to be done, you just have to put in the stitches? Even if you've lost [...]
Uninspiring
Sorry folks, I'm being shamefully uninspiring at the moment. You see, the first laid out draft of the book is here. That means I'm up to my neck in editing...the sort where you match your pens to your highlighters and your postit notes and call upon all the focusing capabilities [...]
Warm
As discussed the last time this hat gripped me in its obsession, these hats are mindbogglingly simple. The vast majority of the time, you're just knitting. Just plain old knitting...nothing fancy at all. Every now and then, you do a little magic trick for one quick row, then slip back [...]
Book Yarn, Part IX
And finally, Vice. I got to know Lizzy, the brain behind Vice, on Ravelry. She's been helping me test my patterns for approximately forever. She even knit both of the sample shawls for the first volume of Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet (which is a lot of knitting). When I heard she [...]
It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
Well bummer. Remember when I said the hat obsession had returned? And I showed you the two yarns I wanted to use? Yes. Well. I seem to have fallen under the sway of Malabrigo's lovely but occasionally sporadic colors. Somehow the yarn that looked all blue and green and gray [...]
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