I Slipped
So you want to know the other reason that lovely gray sock is taking forever? Besides being a pattern precisely calculated to be as slow as humanly possible to work? It's because I've have had a lapse of knitting fidelity. I became distracted. It could have been by these... Swatches. [...]
Slowest Sock Ever
You know what takes me forever to knit? Ribbing. All of that moving the yarn back and forth. It really slows me down. I haven't quite decided if 1x1 ribbing is the worst, or if that honor belongs to k1, p2 ribbing (purling is slower than knitting). I could time [...]
Louche
Look, here I am again, three days in a row! That's nearly unheard of. (Really, I feel bad about my unexpected absence and I'm trying to make up for it. Don't expect it to last too long though, at some point I have to stop writing and actually knit, or [...]
Wanna Share the Pain?
You know how when you hear a recording of yourself it doesn't sound at all like you sound in your head? And I don't know about you, but I never like it. In my head, I'm much more clever/polished/together. When committed to tape, I become alarmingly squeaky. Turns out I [...]
Home Safe
As I mentioned the other day, I've been off on another marvelous little knitting trip. This one was to work with the inimitable Cat Bordhi for a week on my next book. It was an amazing experience. I left knowing that there will be more books and feeling that I [...]
Whoops!
So sorry about that, I didn't mean to disappear! The hotel's version of internet access differed a bit from what I was expecting. But, I'm on my way home now, and should be back to my usual chatty self in a day or two.
Happy Birthday
Two years ago today I started this website. It came into being very late one night as a way to host the pattern for Popped. It was mostly a whim. I thought a handful of folks would download the pattern, and maybe one or two people would even knit the [...]
Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No
It seemed like a good plan at the time. It really did. The lovely Lauren, she who is kind enough to model for me so often, needs a hat. We discussed hats and the colors and shapes in which hats can be made. We measured. I marveled at the size [...]
Words are Not Dirty
So the latest socks are to be called Louche. If we look up Louche we find: adjective: shady, disreputable, of questionable moral character Now this has led to some controversy. I got a few ravelry messages explaining that it was terribly inappropriate for me to use such a 'bad' word [...]
Wanna Take a Trip?
Back in the summer of 2009, The Boy and I took a little trip to Maine. That was in the early days of this website, and I was shamefully remiss in writing about it. The only real mention of it I can find is here. Despite my uncharacteristic reticence about [...]
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