I guess it’s due to the closing of the year, but this week’s Friday Five is all about Xmas and New Years. Due to the nature of the questions, I’m going to talk briefly about work. You may notice that it usually isn’t a topic I bring up. Work has, for the most part over […]
I’m one of those knitters who knits for her family. I tend to be pretty humble about my talents, but having had a role model like my Granny Martin (who knit for her husband, daughter, son, their spouses and their children), it’s natural that I would knit for the people I care about. It started […]
Well, I’ve gotten most of my sock knitting done for the time being, and now I’m just playing with yarn and seeing where it takes me. I could be trying to bust a move with cranking out last minute gifts, but I’m very happy to be going into my Yule celebrations without having any kind […]
Once upon a time (1984) there was this guy. We’ll call him Bob. Bob saw that there was this famine happening in Ethiopia and wanted to do something about it. He was in a band, so he wrote a song, invited a bunch of friends to sing it along with him (they called themselves “Band-Aid”), […]
I’m not going to say that I have all my Christmas knitting done, because the moment I say that is the moment that someone in the family tells me five different things that they want me to knit that would make them the happiest person on the face of the earth. That said, I’ve done […]
So last week we completed the heel and gusset, and started our way down the foot to the toe. First things first, let’s rearrange our stitches again so that all the sole stitches are on one needle, and all the instep stitches are on the other. This will make it easier to start our […]
Koigu is not only a yarn that’s fun to knit, but the name is fun to say too. I was really pleased to find out that it was a Canadian company…according to their website, they are based out of the Georgian Bay area in Ontario. I recently finished a pair of socks using Koigu. I […]
The needles are out and the yarn is flying. The Friday Five didn’t get released before I turned in this morning so instead you get this picture of what we’re doing at Swann’s Pub in Inglewood (Thanks Chels for being my unwitting model). Don’t you wish you were here? 🙂
I think I may have a problem. I have this compulsion….a compulsion to try out different brands of knitting needles when I find a name that’s new to me. When one of my local yarn stores started selling Chiaogoo needles, I had to have a pair. Why? Because they’re mainly bamboo, and you never know […]
I tried. Honestly, I did. I snagged my Regia and proceeded to cast on 125 little tiny stitches using a provisional cast-on. And then I did it again because I wasn’t happy with the way my provisional cast-on turned out. Then I muttered and cursed because I wanted to get that second set of 125 […]