Adumbrate
The pattern for adumbrate is up. These are free and are meant as a sort of thank you present to mark the one year anniversary of this website and of my adventures in designing. This has become a much bigger part of my life than I ever thought it would, [...]
Olympic Glory?
So I sort of did it, but only sort of. The official goal was 'don't cast on any new projects.' The unofficial goal (which seemed to follow rather naturally from the official goal) was 'get lots of stuff done.' I totally met the first goal. Despite severe temptation (we went [...]
Shameless
Shamelessly pink, shamelessly lacy, shamelessly frilly. There is really nothing somber or serious or even respectable here. These mitts are nothing more than a confection. They are the knitting equivalent of marshmallows. They were cast on the minute the Olympics finished and completed in a few hours. I'll turn my [...]
Coming Attractions
I enlisted the help of The Boy and waded out into the snow (really waded, it's well past our knees in many spots). Turns out it's surprisingly hard to find a pose that both shows off the knitting and keeps me from looking like some sort of sausage-fingered mutant. We [...]
Brrrrr
Turns out that bit about 'when the snow lets up' was overly optimistic. As far as I can tell the snow is never letting up. It will continue forever. Sled dogs and igloos are starting to sound eminently practical. I had grand plans for taking pictures of the blue mitts [...]
Improvise
I used to think sock blockers were totally unnecessary, not much more than props really, something to make it look like you know what you're doing. They don't make your socks any warmer or softer or sturdier. Some people swear they help socks dry a bit faster. However, I try [...]
Testing
If anyone wants to help me out by testing the blue mitts, now's the time. There is a thread over on Ravelry where you can volunteer. I'm deciding on testers Saturday night, and sending the pattern out on Sunday. You'd need less than 150 yards of sportweight yarn, and you'd [...]
Remember These?
The cute sweet simple little mitts that took all of a few hours to knit up? From way back in December? Yeah, well, neither did I. Until yesterday that is, when I realized my hands were cold, recalled I was a knitter and that knitters have ways of dealing [...]
Hubris
Things seemed to be going well. Really they did. It was a new (to me at least) way to make a gusset and it seemed to be going off without a hitch. I finished the first Greenhorn and grafted the toes. It was the prettiest and least fussy graft ever. [...]
Astonishing Restraint
There was yarn in Pittsburgh. Rather a lot of yarn. If you consider my purchases in light of the total amount of yarn available, I showed admirable restraint. Quite impressive really. I bought only two little skeins. One a lovely turquoise number from Decadent Fibers and another a dark purplish [...]
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