It’s live!
Silk Road Socks is live! All the details are right here...you can have a project on the needles in just a few minutes!
Noon!
The Silk Road Socks preorder opens today (August 22) at noon (eastern time...if time zones are hard there's a calculator here) for folks on my mailing list. If you're on the list, check your email at noon and you'll find a link to where you can get the book (you'll need to be on the list by about 11:45am today to get the email). You'll get it at the best price of the preorder, and the first 500 folks to buy the paper book will get a special bonus in their packages! It opens tomorrow (August 23) at noon for [...]
Silk Road Socks preorder schedule
So, we're going to keep the preorder for Silk Road Socks short and sweet, but I wanted to spell out all the details in one place, just so everyone knows what to expect! - Tuesday August 22nd, Noon Eastern Time: The preorder opens for folks on my mailing list. I'll send an email out to the people on the list with a link to where they can buy the book. They'll get the best price of the preorder ($3.00 off either the paper or the electronic version). And the first 500 people to order the paper book will get a [...]
Silk Road Socks Q&A
So...ready for the next book? Silk Road Socks is coming out next week! I'll go into all the details of the preorder later this week, but for now I wanted to answer any questions you might have about the book itself. Let's see how many of them I can guess! - What's in the book? 15 sock patterns and 1 slipper pattern, each inspired by a different style of oriental rugs. There are lots of pictures on ravelry, but this will give you an idea of what the projects are like. - What's it look like? I love how many [...]
All this stockinette
I know. I'm as surprised as you are. Normally getting me to knit stockinette is like getting me to deep clean the basement (only under duress, and only if I have something else I'm trying really hard to put off). But lately? Lately I'm starting to see the appeal. I think it's because things are a tiny bit frantic around here (book next week, move next month...more details about both coming shortly), and stockinette is awfully soothing. And well, well I can use soothing right now! This totally fits the bill, and the little welts and stripes are just enough [...]
I got distracted
I had the best of intentions. I really did. The green hat was on the needles and chugging along just fine. But then I had a different idea. And then there was this. And this. Oh and this. And now we're over here. These things happen...it's unavoidable. And I promise there's a plan and this will be quite nifty in a few minutes!
I have an unhealthy relationship with blocking…
More pieces for Curls 3 have started to come in, and I love each and every one. I cannot wait to get them properly blocked and show off their full glory. But until then, you'll have to be content with a little peek at them fresh off the needles. That's out of Knit Circus' Magnificent DK. And that's out of Spun Right Round's Squish DK. Oh wait, it's reversible, so let's see both sides. Now of course you'll get to see them as they get blocked. But sometimes you can just tell ahead of time that things are just going [...]
Caterpillar
I have set the facecloth aside. It's not that I don't like it...it's that if I had to knit one more inch of flat, beige, garter stitch I'd do something injudicious. I needed some color, and some wool, and something a bit more engaging. So there was some swatching. And then casting on (I swear that looks like nothing so much as a caterpillar...back me up on this). And now there are the beginnings of a hat. Which has the advantages of being not flat, not beige, and not in garter stitch. It's also in a lovely lovely yarn (Kunlun [...]
Tantamount (plus giveaway)
I hear from you guys over and over that what you're really looking for in a sock is something that's mellow enough to be relaxing knitting, but with enough going on to look pretty and hold your attention. Well if that's what you're into, I think Tantamount could be just the thing! Most of these socks are lovely, mellow, meditative stockinette. But zipping down the inside and outside of each sock is a nifty little cable that provides just enough of a challenge to keep you focused. And do me a favor and flip your sock inside out once you've [...]
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