Book Yarn, Part VI
School work is chugging along at a respectable clip. I'm a bit more than half way done with the project, and a bit less than half way done with the available time. As long as this proportion keeps up, I can stave off panic. I'm even managing to get the occasional bit of sleep and maintain socially acceptable levels of personal hygiene. So since I have a minute, and since I'm feeling the need to at least see yarn even if I can't currently play with yarn, I thought I'd swing by with another bit of book yarn. On the [...]
Vaunt
So I lied. The plan had been to do these tomorrow. But in the interest of being all scholarly and productive tomorrow (a girl can dream), I'm doing them today. I'm pleased to present Vaunt. These are the latest in the ongoing attempt to find patterns that are subdued enough to appeal to both guys and girls but still interesting enough to not send the knitter mad with boredom. I think they hit the spot. Well, I think this pattern in this color hits the spot. One of the testers made them in a lovely pale purple that might not [...]
Book Yarn, Part V
Look at me, all alive and more or less lucid. The giant project is still giant, but it has been divided into (ever so slightly more) reasonable pieces, and I have a plan. Having a plan is key. It helps you explain what went wrong when you find yourself in a back alley in Ecuador with a live chicken under one arm, a book of Greek philosophy under the other, and a dead flashlight clutched between your teeth. If you hadn't had a plan that would just be confusing. If you'd had a plan at one point, you've at least [...]
Silent Running
Tomorrow I fall off the face of the earth for two weeks. Well, it's not quite that dramatic. Tomorrow I start a project for school, the mere thought of which fills me with dread and fear. That's more like it. I may die. At the very least, I won't have much time for knitting. I will still be posting. I've got the rest of the book yarn to go through and the lovely blue socks to release. But don't be surprised if there's not much new to see. And this lovely streak of posting every day for weeks on end? [...]
Yarn Report
Perhaps not surprisingly, we somehow managed to slip into a few yarn stores on our trip this past weekend. Imagine that. Shocking I know. Our first stop was the Cultured Purl in Erie, PA (what, it was on the way...more or less). It was the first time I had seen Sweet Georgia yarns in a store. Luckily, I have quite a bit of SG sitting around here, so I was able to grab something new. I picked up two skeins of Filigran by Zitron in what seems to be collor 1603 (such an evocative name). This is a single ply [...]
Strike a Pose
On our way home on Sunday, we stopped by Bully Hill, one of our favorite wineries. We've been going to Bully Hill for years...a fairly alarming number of years now that I think of it. We first went many moons ago when we were starry-eyed, fresh-faced college kids on our first trip together. It was good then, and it's still good now. In addition to picking up a bottle or two of wine, we also found a spot to take some sock pictures. Now this area of New York is full of Grand Sweeping Vistas. I, alas, do not seem [...]
Guard Kitten
It seems it's more or less mandatory for knitters to have kittens. Or if not mandatory, at least strongly encouraged. I don't know if the knitting makes us more likely to like kittens (both require a certain tolerance for lint/fluff on your favorite black pants) or if the kittens make us more likely to like knitting (both require a certain tolerance for frustration). Either way, I have the requisite two kittens. Now it's usually Barry who makes an appearance here. He's the woolier of the two kittens. Or so I thought. It turns out that maybe Levon has a wooly [...]
Jaunt
The timing wasn't quite all that we could have asked for (knitty release, work, school, pesky real life so gets in the way), but we went anyways. One of our favorite bands, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, was playing in Buffalo. It was part of Deco-Fest, a fundraiser to help restore the 1920s train terminal. The building was abandoned for decades and is in a rather picturesque state of disrepair. It's the kind of place that made me wish I'd packed stout boots, heavy gloves, and a bright flashlight. Perhaps a screwdriver, a crowbar and a complete disregard for the property rights [...]
Inlay Knitalong
To celebrate Inlay, I'm having a little bit of a knitalong. I'm doing it over in the Silk Road Socks group. I realized I wanted to make these socks when I was doing the research for that book. I saw all the gorgeous floors peeking out from under the rugs and filed away the idea of doing a pattern based on the fancy tile work. Inlay was the result. So I'm totally declaring it ok to host the knitalong in the same place. Now, if you're the sort who wants to make exactly the sock in the picture, I can [...]
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