Flee
So I'm fleeing the country on short notice once again. Well, compared to previous flights, this one is actually with a huge amount of notice...whole days in fact. The summarized version is that I'll be in Toronto this Saturday. It's been a shockingly long time since I've been to Toronto, the last time was way back in November 2007. Now in 2007 I was a very new knitter. How new? Well, consulting my ravelry notes, I see that I took my very first sock ever with me on that trip in 2007. Even back then I knew that Toronto had [...]
Mystery Yarn
I have a mystery yarn. Not a mystery yarn as in 'I lost or threw away the tag, sure in the knowledge that I would remember the info' (note to self, you will not remember). No, a different sort of mystery. I totally have the tag. But the tag does not seem to match up with any of the listings I can find online. The brand is the Great Adirondack Yarn Company. Them I can find. It's the base that's tricky. The tag lists it as "ROSA 3/5." It also says that it's 100% merino superwash, that it's 232 yards [...]
One Down
See, I told you it was making progress. I'm rather taken with these. What do you think, do they work for you too? The color here is a tiny bit off, but it's snowing outside and I don't feel like either putting on my coat or going outside in my jammies. You'll have to just imagine it a bit more orange and a bit less pink. The mate to this one is on the needles now, but is making slow progress. It's not the pattern's fault though. Not at all. The pattern is surprisingly close to autopilot knitting (despite what [...]
Oh the Weather Outside was Frightful…
But my hat was so delightful! See, I told you the hat was much cuter on. And warm...very very warm. I'm fairly sure I could stand outside in that bluster and blow for just about forever and my head would not be cold. (Please pardon the blowing hair, it really was kind of stormy outside. We're standing in the driveway out of the main force of it because otherwise the tassel sticks straight out in the wind. Speaking of tassel, it's really the tassel that makes the whole thing, it's ridiculously fun.) Everyone should immediately go get their very own [...]
Happy New Year
I hope you all had just the sort of New Year's Eve festivities that you wanted (we watched Ghostbusters...what can I say, we're old, that's what we do). As promised, the first of the Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet patterns is available. I'm working with the wonderful Wendee of Hazel Knits on her January knit along. All the details (including how you can download the Linaria bipartita Sock pattern free during the month of January) are over on the knit along thread. As for my own knitting, I'm ready to do the toe on the first of the orange spiky socks. Next [...]
Less Than Prolific
I had all sorts of clever plans to avoid the dreaded blog silence over the holidays. And I mostly made it...there totally were posts. Just not as many (and not as knitting-rich) as I would like. It's mostly because I've been doing stuff other than knitting over the last few days. It's surprisingly hard to have knitting to show you if I don't actually knit. Not impossible...just hard. I'll offer two little consolation prizes. First, there's a wee little interview with me on Robin's site. Second, if you come back on January first, I'll let you know how you can [...]
Just Right
I'm more or less in love with this hat. It's ridiculously simple, unreasonably tall, and quite possibly the warmest hat in the history of yarn. I can't decide how I like it best...as shown there (with the top flopped over), with the brim folded up once and only a bit of pouf on the top, or with the brim folded up twice so it sits more firmly against the top of my head. Then there's the always amusing option of wearing it inside out. I may also have made a giant tassel to slip in to the top as the [...]
No Really…It Will Be Cute
Back in March, I went to the Black Swamp Spinner's Guild Market Day. I bought pencil roving. I brought it home and, within a day or two, I cast on for a hat. It was a hat of epic failure. It was too big. Massively too big. Even for my giant head. There was no saving it. I eventually ripped and set the yarn in the active project basket in the family room. This basket is on the top shelf of the bookcase and had always been safe from kitten depredations. This time, not so much. There is something about [...]
Conductor
Last one...next post I promise actual wool. But today is my birthday and I'm going to be exactly as lazy as I want to be (hint: very). That means a short blog post, a breakfast featuring chocolate chip waffles made by someone else, some ridiculously simple yet oddly entrancing knitting, an awful lot of board games, and absolutely no chance of getting out of my pajamas. Oh, it also means that there's a wee tiny sale. Today and tomorrow (through 11:59pm eastern time December 24th), buy one pattern get one free (everything except the books). To take advantage: 1) Visit [...]
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