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 [...]
Book Yarn, Part I
Alrighty. A few folks have asked if I'm going to tell you which yarns I'm using in Book the Second. I wasn't all that sure that folks liked that last time, but since you asked so nicely, I can totally be persuaded. Even more on target, the book and the rest of my life are oh-so-rudely cutting into my knitting time (and thus limiting my blog fodder), and this gives me something to say. So, without further ado, and with the help of our noble friend Percival, let's get to the yarn. On the left is Blue Moon Fiber Arts [...]
Winner
As promised, the winner for the Barking Dog Yarns/Foliate giveaway is Sue of Alderwood Quilts. It looks like Sue already knows all about Barking Dog Yarns and will be adding a skein of Galaxy in the color California to her stash. I'll be in touch to sort everything out. And because I feel bad that not everyone can win, I set up a little promo for everyone else. If you buy Foliate, you can have any of my other patterns for free. Just put both Foliate and any other pattern in your ravelry cart, click on the use a coupon [...]
The Master Plan
This book thing only works if you're organized. Well, it only works for me if I'm organized. You may be as disorganized as you like. This box is Book the Second. You might think books live on the computer. And large parts of this one certainly do. But, by its very nature, a book like this has a certain physical component. This box keeps that physical component safe and tidy. A surprising number of you have asked about how the book is being managed, so I thought I'd share a bit. This is a giant plastic file box from some [...]
Yarn Giveaway
Because Suzan, evil genius behind Barking Dog Yarns, is awesome, I have a skein of Galaxy to give away. Actually, it's even better than that. Instead of having an actual physical skein of yarn in my hands to send away (always a bit of a wrench I tell you), I have permission to send you over to the site, tell you to find your very favorite color (in any of the bases), and Suzan will dye it up in Galaxy for you. I am, frankly, jealous. Someone is in for a treat. I can't say enough good things about this [...]
Snag
So we all do it. Or at least I hope we all do it. This morning I realized that I'd worked part of one row of the sock much much looser than the others. Now for some things this might not matter or might come out in the wash. But this is a sock, and I didn't want to leave a place that could wear our or irritate the foot. But of course it was many many rounds back, and I didn't want to rip. So if you ever find yourself in this unenviable potion (you of course won't because [...]
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