Rampant (plus giveaway)
I am not the type to have any sort of holiday knitting plan. I don't knit special things for Valentine's Day or Halloween or even Christmas, much less time my patterns to coincide with them. So you can imagine my surprise when I realized that I was bringing Rampant, the greenest socks I've ever knit, back out on St. Patrick's day. This is unnaturally good timing and very much not my usual move! One of the most fun things about bringing back old patterns is remembering what was happening when I knit them. I knit these in the summer of [...]
No really, I have a plan
Remember the most boring soothing knitting ever? The pillow case made with pencil roving in lovely shades of calm and sleep? Yeah, it's fought its way back into my lap for some knitting time. But before I could go too much farther with it, I needed to actually get the pillow it's going to go around. I want the final product it to be pretty big, so I went with one that's 18x26. So if I left well enough alone, we'd be somewhere like this. But I am not leaving well enough alone. Because what fun would there be in [...]
Tools, the blocking edition
I am particular about blocking. It makes such a tremendous difference in how your finished knitting looks (and fits) that it's worth taking a the extra time to do it right. It's only going to take a fraction of the time you've already spent knitting, so it seems well worth the effort. I've been blocking things for the photo shoot (April 7, remember...you're all supposed to be arranging for a warm, bright-but-overcast day, with no snow on the ground, ok?), and thought I'd take a second to show off some of the tools I like best for blocking. You can [...]
Upcoming
So, the stash toss had a variety of benefits. First and foremost, it satisfied my 'I am being overwhelmed by all my things and must throw them all away to reclaim any semblance of sanity' urge (this urge falls upon me with alarming frequency). Second, it made a whole lot of extra room in my closet. And third, it allowed for some serious advance planning. You know I've been bringing early patterns back out (Cataphyll and Louche are recent sock returns, and Plicate and Colophon are some of the returning accessories)? Well I really want to get pretty much all [...]
Toss
Those of you who have not had the distinct pleasure of living with me may not know one of my dirty little secrets. I am a stress cleaner. If I am feeling frazzled, I tidy things. And, conversely, if things are untidy, I feel frazzled. So yesterday, when I went to put something in my office closet and took full account of the mess in there, I sort of snapped. I decided that I simply had to take an hour or two out of the day and purge the stash. It was a fairly brutal purge if I'm being honest. [...]
Hideously Immodest
Guys, I'm going to be a total brat for a second. I was going to just come on here and say 'hey, Curls is finally finally finally in stock on amazon...if you've been waiting for it over there, go grab it.' And I'm still going to say that. But I'm also going to do this deeply, alarmingly immodest thing. You see that wee orange banner? It says number one in knitting. And when last I visited the page, it seems like it's number one in needlework too. And you've been leaving lovely reviews. All that for a book that came [...]
Wrack
They're here! The pattern for Wrack (The Boy's latest socks, and oh buddy has has he ever earned them with the shipping shenanigans of the last week or so) is up on ravelry. You've watched these click along all through last December. And if you've been here for a while, you know that me knocking out a pair of socks in less than a month is pretty darn speedy. Part of that is the yarn (squoosh aran by Skeinny Dipping, and a lovely fat sock yarn it is), but part of it is totally the pattern. The cables get you [...]
Scattershot
Well, that was a bracing few days. Most of those copies of Curls have gone off to new homes in lovely yarn stores (and yes, you can totally ask your favorite store to get in touch, I'd love to send it their way, too). The porch has looked a little something like this for the last few days. But never fear, we'll be back to yarn-y goodness next week! In fact, Tuesday will see the release of the lovely brown boy socks you watched me make earlier this winter. We took the photos for them when we were in Charleston, [...]
Less than Picturesque
Have you seen those blogs that make their authors' lives look hideously perfect? The sort where every dinner is nutritionally balanced, gluten free, organic, free range, ethically sourced, and served on a beautifully decorated table in their breathtakingly landscaped back yard? Or the sort where the whole adorable family goes on fabulous ski vacations, wearing matching hand knit sweaters, and the only thing brighter than the snow is their perfectly straight teeth? Or maybe the kind where someone says 'I woke up one morning, wrote an ebook on a whim, and by dinner time I was running out of places [...]
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