Inlay
I really don't like waiting. I'm bad at it. It makes me a tiny bit crazy (hey, maybe if I reload this page over and over and over the update will happen faster...hasn't worked yet, but I should still try because you never know when it might work). I'm an absolute delight on long car trips. But now the waiting is over. The socks that I started back when it was snowy, finished in March, and photographed in April...the socks that I thought were coming out on Monday...can now be shared. I'm pleased to present Inlay. And yes, I am [...]
Unapologetically Fluffy
This is, without doubt, the softest, fluffiest, most luxuriant bit of knitting confectionery I have ever had the pleasure to lay hands on. I can in no way convey how marvelous it is. My picture does not do it justice. I've picked it up and petted it a dozen times in the last two days (the cats are getting jealous). Discretion would suggest I don't show it to you just yet, but I am unable to restrain myself. Now, in the interest of self control and restraint, I must tuck it away in the big plastic box of externally imposed [...]
Yarn Store Recommendations
So...anyone out there have any thoughts on yarn stores that should not be missed in New York? I'm going to be in Buffalo and Corning in the next little while, and would love to know of any great stores in the area. I'm trying to be a clever kid and ask a bit before I go, as opposed to the morning I head out. Doing it that way more or less guarantees I won't have internet access and will miss all the helpful suggestions. I have a feeling this approach is much better!
Book Yarn, Part IV
Ok, that's it. I've decided the universe is conspiring against me in an attempt to teach me patience. I'm going to take another approach. There is no big shiny thing I'm waiting to tell you. That was all in my head. I was having a hallucination. Really, carry on, nothing to see here. I shall just push ahead with my other planned blather. And if the big shiny thing happens to come along later...well, then I'll let you know about it then. In the meantime, more yarn. On the left is Saffron Dyeworks in Mica in the color Botanical. It's [...]
Book Yarn, Part III
Alrighty, the plan had been to put up an entirely different post today. But that can't happen until something else happens, so I must continue to wait. I promise it doesn't come easily. But I've been managing to get up a post every day, and I don't want to break my streak (momentum baby, it's all about momentum). So I'm sneaking in with more book yarn. And look two whole yarns and neither one is purple. Who knew? I will confess I do have a soft spot for purple. Blue...well blue I can take or leave. But purple I like. [...]
Not Quite
It has been a rage-y sort of day. The kind where you stub your toe and burn your tongue and somehow don't quite manage to rinse all the conditioner out of your hair and all of your clothes are itchy and all the sounds in the world are too loud. I'm firmly convinced that the only way to remedy such a day is to go back to bed, take a nap, and try again later. Alas, I didn't follow my own advice. Instead I tried to take pictures of the most recent socks. In the heat. On The Boy. In [...]
Unexpected Maturity
Last night, in a totally uncharacteristic fit of prudence and temperance (and possibly a few other virtues, though certainly not fortitude), I did an impressive thing. My hands hurt, so I put my knitting down. I know, not exactly rocket science. But it becomes all the more stunning when I explain that I put my knitting down when I had only 8 rounds to go to finish the second sock in a pair. And they weren't even the traditional 64 stitch rounds (64*8=512, which is actually a fair number of stitches). Nope, they were the decrease rounds at the tip [...]
The Real Reason
So you know the real reason to write a book? It's the mail. Seriously. Writing this thing has been almost as much work for the postman as for me. First, all the yarn comes in the mail. And really, yarn is pretty high up there on the list of fun things to find in the mailbox. Then, well, then comes a sad part. Then I have to send the yarn off to my cadre of astonishingly attractive and marvelously talented sample knitters. Sending yarn away is much less fun than getting yarn, but it's a necessary part of the process. [...]
Book Yarn, Part II
Hey look, it's our friend Percival again. I am totally making him earn his keep. Fair disclosure, I set him up on the front porch and clicked through all of the various yarns one after the other. It was windy, some of the pictures feature yarn wandering off to one side or the other. It was also getting dark. So you might be able to line all the pictures up and figure out in what order I took them based on how dark it is. But I'm guessing you've got better things to do with your time. On the left [...]
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