Clik here to view.
How long does it take?
The past few days have been solely about knitting. This is partly due to being wholly consumed with the latest sweater project I’m working on… and partly due to literally having only 15 minutes here...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Let’s have a little math with that knitting, shall we?
I’m very pleased with my progress so far. I’m working on the lower backside of things. The tricky part of this step is that my luscious pear shape dictates that my lower end of things is 2 sizes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Today’s mistake is a “design feature”.
Yesterday I wrote about needing to rip out 7 inches of knitting, but today I’m keeping something in. I found a cable where I needed to swap the order of the stitches 4×4 but instead had done a little...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Off the grid…
I’m going off the grid for a week and don’t plan to be friendly with my computer during that time. I might post teasers by phone on twitter if you follow me there. In the meantime, I’ve been working...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An accounting of projects…
I was reading online where someone suggested that 5 was the optimal number of projects to have. (I’d share a link, but I was lost online and can’t find the link anymore. Story of my life.) The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Back and forth…
I’ve been joyfully going back and forth between two projects this weekend. Sleeve shaping on my Quercus sweater… Per the pattern, I did some short row shaping where the shoulder area is (much like the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why knit?
Ask anyone who knits what got them started with knitting and you will find a story. You’ll hear things like: It looked easy and fun. I wanted to make a scarf. My grandmother/aunt/mother taught me as a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
One approach to deciding on a knit project…
Somewhere in my very first pound of spinning fiber I spun a lovely little 4 oz. of lime green, sock weight yarn. It was my first 3 ply yarn and I spun it with a “z” twist to see if I would notice a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Using handspun…
I’m a new spinner. As such, the idea of using my hand spun for actual knitting or weaving is a bit daunting. I want things to look good and not scream “homemade”. Lumpy, bumpy hand spun… uummmmm....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Catching up on some fiber arts (digging into the “UFO’s”)…
Knit UFO’s are unfinished objects. My goal this summer has been to clear some out either by making hard decisions or deconstructing them to begin anew. Solid color spun yarn. This had been sitting on...
View Article
