Welcome Craft Sanity Listeners!
If you found your way here through the marvelous Craft Sanity podcast, Welcome! If you're a regular reader and haven't yet checked out Craft Sanity, you're in for a treat. Head on over and take a look around. I'm thrilled to be sponsoring the January fifth episode of Craft Sanity. To welcome listeners, I'm having a little giveaway. All you have to do is click on the Patterns link, pick your favorite, and leave a comment with its name. Easy as can be! Please do be sure to use a working email address (no one but me will see it, [...]
Caprice
As promised, pics of the finished socks! Alas, taking pics in the snow is rather challenging. I thought the snow would provide a lovely atmospheric background and bounce lots of light around and make things all easy and pretty. Um. No. Not so much. Instead it was cold, kept falling on the socks and the camera, made the colors look funny, and just generally inconvenienced both the photographer (The Boy) and the model (me). It did, however, demonstrate the astonishing insulative power of wool (in case there was any doubt). My feet were not cold at any point during this [...]
Good Riddance…
To be honest, 2009 had more than its fair share of rough spots. Lets just say that it presented an exciting array of character building experiences. However, I can now say with certainty that 2009 is gone and I am still here. That means I won. To celebrate this victory and to start the new year on a better note, we took a wee jaunt to see one of our favorite bands, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. (If you know them only from that late 90's swing resurgence you're missing a treat. Go hear the rest of their stuff right now. [...]
Done!
The purple socks (they will be called Caprice, which I'll explain in due course) are done and drying on the blockers. I'm quite smitten by them. So smitten, in fact, that I may go ahead and release them earlier than I had originally planned. I'm starting to think early January might be a more fitting date than mid February. What do you think? There is one sad thing about them being done though. Their completion means that I am not currently using my new Signature needles. They went into the socks the day I opened them and haven't been far [...]
Blue Around the Edges
So way back when, I mentioned that I had cast on two socks and a pair of mitts in a fit of unexpected productivity (or is that promiscuity). One of the socks you've seen, and the other has been ruthlessly ripped and is waiting for me to rework it into something that will fit a human foot. The mitts, however, have been hiding in the shadows. No more. Here they are in all their winter-y glory. Now you may recall that I said that I started this project in large part because the yarn (the sadly defunct Sheep Number Three [...]
Yarn Love
All of my suspicions about Happy Feet DK have been proven correct! I am in love. It is just the right thickness for my preferred needle/tension/foot combination. It's just thick enough to feel fast. Now knitting is not and will never be the quickest way to get socks. Speed is not the point. But I'm willing to bet that most of us wouldn't mind too terribly much if the process took just a tiny bit less time. This yarn takes care of it. I need about 10% fewer stitches around the circumference of the sock, which makes quite a lot [...]
Testing Testing One Two Three
Short notice I know, but the most recent socks are up for testing over on ravelry. Hop on over for details. I'm picking testers by December 25, so if you want to try you should go there sooner rather than later.
Abominable Snowman Found
Do you see that fluffy white stuff over there? That's snow. Those pink things dangling out in the cold with no protective covering? Those are my toes. Yup, I went outside barefoot in the snow to get a sock picture for you. Well, half barefoot, there seemed no reason for the other foot to suffer too. And just for the record, the white speckles on the leg of the sock up by the cuff are snowflakes, not lint. I keep a lint roller by the camera and am fairly good at de-linting before I take photos. I am, however, not [...]
CraftLit Collaboration
I'm thrilled to announce that my Colophon pattern is going to be available for free for the next two months as part of a collaboration with CraftLit. CraftLit, for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of finding it yet, is a marvelous podcast produced by Heather Ordover. It combines knitting and books, two of my very favorite obsessions. When Heather announced that she was looking for patterns to accompany the new CraftLit iphone app, I knew I had to see if I could help. The pattern for Colophon seemed perfect - with a name like that it was [...]
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