Knit One, Purl Too: A Knitlog

It is a tense time here at the house of Knit One, Purl Too. The best of intentions are meeting up with reality: a. November and December are really busy at work, and b. it takes what seems like forever to make it to the end of a sleeve if you start by picking up [...]

Better late than never, item two: I ran across Kelly’s list of knitting resolutions for 2006; since I already had something like this in mind, I thought I’d write some things down so I can look back in 360-odd days and see what really happened.

It’s just like the moment when you see a ding in your new car, and though you love it in spite of the ding, you love it a little less. Your mind wanders for just a tiny moment to contemplate the next new car, because the car with the ding is now “old”. I’m thinking about new socks.

What kind of knitter am I? I hope I will be a knitter who is always learning as I knit, even if I am looking forward to finishing something and moving on. What kind of knitter are you?

It may be the one yarn I’d take to a desert island with me, and I’ve touched angora.

Much like my trials with the circular cast on, I have now decided that the creation of any serious amount of I-cord is a reason not to do a project. Knit five, slide, knit five, repeat five hundred times. I don’t care that it seemed to go fast when I applied myself (applied…I-cord…get it? Hee.) [...]

I have a gift to make by Memorial Day weekend, and it’s going well – a Booga Bag for my friend Amy. This is a landmark project for me; when I started knitting again nearly a year ago, I called Amy and said “I want to make you a bag.” We went back and forth [...]

The new favorite yarn in my house is Cascade Pastaza, a blend of llama and wool that’s incredibly soft, with beautiful variations in color and a rustic look not unlike Lopi. We discovered it’s the favorite because I’m madly knitting away on a felted Bucket O’Chic for Knit One Purl Too’s Yarn Recommendation Staff (aka [...]

One thing I would change next time through – the handles for this tote are stitched on pre-felting, which means, of course that the yarn used to stitch them on felts as well – and shrinks.

Now I guess I’ll have to stop haunting the EBay Wool listings and get knitting.