Pleased to Meet You
Meet Alphonse. He's my new toy prop. He is a perfect example of the odd encounters that this knitting thing can lead to. I found him on an online antique store. I sent off a little email to the store asking what size his head was. Instead of just answering me, the shop wrote back asking why on earth that would matter. They went to great length to explain that this was a prop. It was meant for display. It was absolutely positively not for real hats. I (graciously I hope) explained that I wanted him to be a working [...]
Stormy
Ice storms make for lovely knitting weather. Noisy, but lovely. The second of the green swirly socks, henceforth to be known as Louche, is now underway. Even more important, the scribbling, calculating, and doodling required to write the pattern has been completed. I'll likely turn it from my chicken scratch into something someone else has a hope of reading and put it out for testers later this week. As a scheduling note, the pattern for Truckle is done and ready to go out, save only a picture. Of course getting a picture requires me, plus The Boy, plus daylight, plus [...]
Pesky Reality
I think most knitters reach a point where they start to think 'hmmm, wouldn't it be nice to have a small flock/herd/pack of sheep/goats/alpacas?' Of course if you're me, you then remember that a) you live on a tiny city lot in a town with an unreasonable penchant toward regulations, b) you haven't the slightest idea how to care for any animal more demanding than a cat (and a laid back cat at that), and c) you don't actually want to deal with the quantity of poop that such creatures doubtless produce. In other words, reality and all of its [...]
Now it Feels Real
I'm an old-fashioned girl. I like books. Real, honest-to-goodness, paper books. The heavy kind. The kind that sit on shelves. The kind that have a smell to them. I like being surrounded by them. They make me feel comfortable and settled and safe. I find houses without visible books a bit disconcerting. Given this, I wasn't all that surprised when the electronic release of the book didn't quite feel real. Don't get me wrong. It felt good to have it out in the world, and it's been great to see what people are doing with the patterns. And really, the [...]
Keen
You know what's nifty? When the building where your website lives loses power for 32 hours. It's just swell. It leads to lots of incoherent muttering and more than one diatribe about the rather whimsical notions of customer service held by the power company. All of which is to say, sorry if you tried to come by yesterday. I didn't mean to be away. With luck, it shouldn't happen again.
Back On The Needles
The drought is over. After my unaccustomed knitting holiday, I finally got some yarn on the needles last night. Of course you will have to take my word for it, because what I knit was a swatch. Well actually a couple of swatches. More than that, they are swatches for a proposal for someone else's project. That means they must remain secret. That also means doing a real and proper swatch. A full on, knit it, *decide 'huh, that part would be better if I did this other thing,' rip it, reknit it with this new idea incorporated, repeat from [...]
Gnomon
I'm not quite sure how to say this. I haven't knit in, well, days and days. I think Wednesday was the last time I knit. That's four whole days with no knitting. Not a swatch, not a hat, not a sock, nothing. Part of it was that I burned my hand a bit (it's almost completely healed now, no worries). Part of it was that we got a new dining room table this weekend and spent nearly every waking moment either hauling it in and setting it up, cleaning up after that rather destructive process, playing games, or preparing and [...]
That’s Better
So it seems I've not completely forgotten how to make socks. I know, it seemed for a while there as though I'd lost my way, but I'm now back on track. See? An actual, fresh off the needles, still damp on the blocker, sock. And to speak in my own defense, I haven't really ignored socks for the last two months. I actually have (yet another) super secret sock on the needles. These socks are awesome. Alas, they will have to remain secret for a while yet. You'll have to content yourself with these guys in the meantime. Now that [...]
Winners!
Thanks to everyone who entered. It seems that you guys are as taken with Dream in Colors marvelous work as I am. I'm happy to announce that Ariel and Andrea were the lucky commenters (as chosen by random.org). I've sent off emails asking for their mailing addresses and will mail out the yarn as soon as I hear back (which is good, as I might fall too deeply in love with it if I keep it around any longer...sending yarn away is hard). Meanwhile, in actual knitting news, anyone remember these guys? The sock I cast on in Nova Scotia? [...]
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