Daunting
Respectable adults do not whine. Respectable adults certainly do not wine about anything so lovely as a giant pile of knitting ready for blocking. Respectable adults would not dream of doing any such thing, they wouldn't even know how to start if you asked them to. I, on the other hand, lacking something in both the adulthood and the respectability departments, may have looked at this pile (and that's not all of them, there are four more on the way) and whined quite a bit. But then the lovely folks at Inspinknity stepped in to save the day with their [...]
Scalloped
Well then, this is going to be something rather special, isn't it? I'm not sure what it says about me, but I find scalloped edges on knitting almost unbearably entertaining. The only thing that reassures me is that I've heard from quite a few of you that you like them, too! And mix in a scalloped edge and some Devon by Black Bunny Fibers, and you're pretty much going to have magic. I can't really be expected to resist.
Fall with SweetGeorgia (review and giveaway)
I have a long history of loving SweetGeorgia's yarns. I used them way back in my very first book and have been happily playing with them ever since (oh and there just might be a pattern in one of their yarns in the new book due out next month). I love it when yarn companies collaborate with designers, so when I heard they were releasing a collection this fall, I was totally excited! The collection is called Fall with SweetGeorgia (that 'volume 1' part there makes me hope there are more things planned), and it's delightful. It's a lovely mix [...]
Flare
I have a long-standing, deeply-held, and unabashed fondness for flared cuffs. They're the piece of knitting I wear most often (gloves and hats feel like outer wear, whereas my cuffs I can totally wear in my drafty house without feeling like a weirdo who needs to get new windows). They leave your fingers free for typing or knitting or cooking or whatever else it is you need to be getting on with, but somehow do actually manage to keep you warmer. They take surprisingly little time to knit. And they're just downright adorable. Or they are, after they're finished and [...]
Calcareous (plus giveaway)
We're totally on a roll. I told you I had a lovely stack of early patterns to bring back, and today's is Calcareous! These sort of hit that sweet spot between cabling and ribbing. The cables keep the ribbing from getting boring (because I can't be the only one who would go mad with boredom before I reached the end of a pair of plain ribbed socks). And the ribbing keeps the cables behaving nicely and makes sure the socks fit beautifully. And there's something rather tidy going on with the gusset there too. See how the decreases are snugged [...]
Over The…
One of you come finish this for me, pretty please? It's reached the point where the rows are alarmingly long (it's all bunched up on the needles so you're not really seeing the full size of the thing here). It's also reached the point where I keep wishing I had a bit more yarn so I could make it really really really big. But, as the yarn came (without a label) from a jewelry vendor at Rhinebeck three years ago, I think I'm probably out of luck. Probably, but not definitely. For you see, I just sort of happened to [...]
Push and Pull
So I think I showed you finished pics of both variations of the hats, I don't think I ever showed you both together. I'm rather taken with them. I think they're a perfect example of how very tiny changes in your knitting can have surprisingly big results. These use exactly the same ribbing, exactly the same increases, and exactly the same kind of basic decreases (ssk and k2tog). But by shifting the relative positions of the increases and decreases, you get two totally different looks. One where the ribbing stays straight and a band cuts across it. And one where [...]
Salty
The making of a giant batch of herb salt has turned into a yearly event. We first did it (complete with something resembling instructions) back here. And we did it again just about this time last year. And this week we did it yet again. We use this salt in everything we cook (well...everything except sweets, because that would be odd) and more or less wouldn't want to cook without it. You absolutely need to make some of your own. And this year? This year we learned something very very important. You can totally use the food processor instead of [...]
Brimming
I want to talk about blocking hats with brims. Now there's every chance you have already found a way to block hats with brims that you're happy with, in which case you can totally go entertain yourself elsewhere. But it took me an alarming number of tries to find something I was truly happy with, so I figure there's got to be someone else out there wondering how the heck to do this. Of course the easy option is just to block it with the brim down and cuff it when you put it on. Now I'm sure you can [...]
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