Book Giveaway
The marvelous Wendy Johnson (the mastermind behind Toe Up Socks for Every Body and Socks from the Toe Up) has a copy of Silk Road Socks to give away. Of course this makes me feel a fluttery in my tummy because Wendy is a real and proper designer (this apparently [...]
Truckle
I know, you've been waiting for these for awhile. You guys totally talked me in to doing them. They started out as my 'too sick to think' socks. I really didn't think you would be interested in them, but it seems you like them! Of course the super-simple to knit [...]
More Tools of the Trade
So the other day you met Alphonse. He's quite dapper, and makes a perfect house guest. Today I'm showing off some truly funky sock blockers. Now you know we've got some big feet in this house. I wear a ladies' size 11, and The Boy wears a men's size 13. [...]
Pleased to Meet You
Meet Alphonse. He's my new toy prop. He is a perfect example of the odd encounters that this knitting thing can lead to. I found him on an online antique store. I sent off a little email to the store asking what size his head was. Instead of just answering [...]
Stormy
Ice storms make for lovely knitting weather. Noisy, but lovely. The second of the green swirly socks, henceforth to be known as Louche, is now underway. Even more important, the scribbling, calculating, and doodling required to write the pattern has been completed. I'll likely turn it from my chicken scratch [...]
Pesky Reality
I think most knitters reach a point where they start to think 'hmmm, wouldn't it be nice to have a small flock/herd/pack of sheep/goats/alpacas?' Of course if you're me, you then remember that a) you live on a tiny city lot in a town with an unreasonable penchant toward regulations, [...]
Now it Feels Real
I'm an old-fashioned girl. I like books. Real, honest-to-goodness, paper books. The heavy kind. The kind that sit on shelves. The kind that have a smell to them. I like being surrounded by them. They make me feel comfortable and settled and safe. I find houses without visible books a [...]
Keen
You know what's nifty? When the building where your website lives loses power for 32 hours. It's just swell. It leads to lots of incoherent muttering and more than one diatribe about the rather whimsical notions of customer service held by the power company. All of which is to say, [...]
Back On The Needles
The drought is over. After my unaccustomed knitting holiday, I finally got some yarn on the needles last night. Of course you will have to take my word for it, because what I knit was a swatch. Well actually a couple of swatches. More than that, they are swatches for [...]
Gnomon
I'm not quite sure how to say this. I haven't knit in, well, days and days. I think Wednesday was the last time I knit. That's four whole days with no knitting. Not a swatch, not a hat, not a sock, nothing. Part of it was that I burned my [...]
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