The Sock Report

Do you remember the other day when I said I was feeling bad it had been a while since I released a pattern?  I don't feel all that bad anymore. The always charming Janel Laidman (author of The Enchanted Sole) has a wonderful new project.  It's a magazine with a focus on sock yarn.  It's called The Sock Report, and it's marvelous.  I'm so pleased to have a pattern in it! My pattern is but one of the yummy things you'll find in The Sock Report.  There are 15 other patterns to keep it company, and each uses a different [...]

June 1, 2012|

Chamfer

As promised, the orange(ish) spiky socks (they look a bit too pink in these shots, which is totally my fault, but it's snowy out there now and I don't feel like braving the elements to try again).  These have been named Chamfer, and I'm quite taken with them.  I'm actually wearing them today as I type this.  Life's a wee bit busy here at the moment, so I'll have to leave you with just a link to the ravelry page, and a few pictures.

February 14, 2012|

One Down

See, I told you it was making progress.  I'm rather taken with these.  What do you think, do they work for you too?  The color here is a tiny bit off, but it's snowing outside and I don't feel like either putting on my coat or going outside in my jammies.  You'll have to just imagine it a bit more orange and a bit less pink. The mate to this one is on the needles now, but is making slow progress.  It's not the pattern's fault though.  Not at all.  The pattern is surprisingly close to autopilot knitting (despite what [...]

January 3, 2012|

Festoon

So...you guys like the tiny hats.  First, I feel it necessary to tell you that you can totally make these up on your own.  Really you can, I have total confidence in you.  But lots of folks sent me messages asking how to do it, so I went ahead and wrote up the pattern.  Well, first I made three more hats, and then I wrote up the pattern giving instructions for all seven variations.  But, I'd feel a little bit shady taking money for something so tiny, so I've decided that all the proceeds from the sale of this pattern [...]

December 12, 2011|

Warm and Spiky

Two bits of good news! First, the nice man from the gas company's repair service showed up bright and early Monday morning.  He looked at our furnace (an admittedly elderly piece of machinery), took a panel off, wiggled a few wires, pushed a button, and boom...heat.  I felt rather like an ass for not knowing to do this myself.  But I was a warm ass, so I didn't care for long.  And I had remembered that we had the furnace repair program and called them instead of calling the regular repair company (who charge $80 to ring the doorbell and [...]

December 6, 2011|

Whippersnapper

This was supposed to happen Tuesday, but it's ready now and I'm not the patient type, so I've jumped the gun and done it today. Both the weather and The Boy proved exceptionally agreeable, and many photos were taken.  While the sorry state of our yard is usually something of a shame to me, this time it turned out to be quite convenient.  There were plenty of piles of leaves to serve as handy backdrops.  And our decrepit and alarmingly mossy fence cheerfully lent its services as well (I'm really not sure how it's still standing, but I'm not going [...]

November 21, 2011|

Warm Up

You remember the (ever so slightly crazy making) reign of painterly doom.  They did lovely work, but while they were here, I just could not pay attention to one thing for more than an hour or so at a time.  It just wasn't happening. So in celebration of a short attention span, I made this set of mitts.  At least that's the excuse I'm using for the otherwise pitiful amount of stuff I got done while they were here.  The mitts are an excellent consolation though! Each one takes only minimal mental effort (hey, we all have those days, I [...]

October 3, 2011|

Gripping

I've got a quick little treat for you.  We all know I'm shamefully easily amused.  I have a suspicion one or two of you may suffer from this condition too.  So I've written up some quick instructions for making your own squirm of tentacles.  You can use more or less any yarn (each only takes a few yards), and you can bang several of them out in a night.  They make excellent desk pets, they are highly entertaining when tucked around your house in unexpected places, and they are fearsome yarn guardians.  

September 23, 2011|

Creep

I'm suffering from project creep. It started with 'hey, I bet I can learn this cast on.'  Yesterday's wee red mitts were the result of that little fit. That led to 'oooooh, you know what else would be cool?' That thought tipped me elbow deep into the short bits bin to dig out that blue yarn you see right there. Then I had a 'well, three of something is a collection, right?' Which sent me scrabbling back into the very same bin for the yellow yarn and the two buttons (buttons!) What do you think, do those three colors go [...]

September 10, 2011|
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