Since realizing that the sweater was at a stall, I’ve been in a bit of a funk. I’m left without a compelling sock project, and the only other project that I have on the needles that I could take to work for my breaks is a scarf. For whatever reason, I really don’t feel like […]
This is why we can’t have nice things: I have discovered that when you knit a sweater, you have a chance of one of three things happening. Either the sweater is too big, too small, or….OR…you get the dyelots mixed up. Yep. That’s exactly what happened. You can barely see it in the photo up […]
It’s been a busy week – between work and holiday visits, there hasn’t been a lot of time for taking photographs. Since I’m rocking the grave shifts this month, I haven’t had any daylight time to take decent in-progress shots, so you’ll just have to take my word for it when I tell you that […]
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”), […]
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 […]
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 […]
I admit it. I came to David Bowie late. Comparatively speaking, that is. David Bowie is the kind of artist that I “just missed”. He made his big splash in the 70’s when I was too young to notice, and had a huge comeback in the 80’s when I was too ignorant to care. Actually, […]
If you were following along last week, we started off by knitting a cuff and leg in the round. This week we shall continue on by creating a heel. The main thing to remember is that your leg plus your foot is a long cylinder with a bend in it (actually, if you really […]