Knit One, Purl Too: A Knitlog

I thought I’d take a look at my Best of 2007 because I love lists like this:
1. Your best FO of the year: I wish it were Cable and Rib, but it’s really no contest. My favorite FO was the Picot Timberline Toes socks, finished this summer. I loved the picot hem so much [...]

1. I finished my first pair of socks for 2007 while I was on vacation this past week.
2. They’re Lucy Neatby’s Timberline Toes pattern from Cool Socks, Warm Feet.
3. I used ONline Tropic sock yarn, color 924.
4. I loved the pattern and the colors, but the yarn was a little splitty.
5. My only modifications were [...]

Today is my birthday - shh, I haven’t told anyone else. I like the wild rumpus as much as the next person, but I am enjoying the 38th version of my birthday, low key and mellow, as much as the 29th (at which I threw myself a party) and the 21st (at which I [...]

I am not a knitting quitter. I’m not really a quitter, period; I think persistence is a virtue that serves knitters well (e.g. the Slogalong - Cable and Rib and I are proud members). I have abandoned just one project in my years of knitting, and I was happy to do it, because [...]

Happy belated New Year! January brought me a case of bronchitis followed by a cold, so I’ve spent most of the last three and a half weeks recuperating - with intermittent bouts of knitting. On the bright side, if only I’d known small projects went so quickly, I’d have started knitting them sooner.
First up, [...]

‘ve owned Knitting on the Road for two years and have yet to make anything out of it. Knitting in the Old Way, Scarf Style, Wrap Style, and every damn issue of any knitting magazine in my house - I’ve made nothing. Yet you’ll have to pry Priscilla Gibson-Roberts’ book out of my cold, dead hands before I give it up, and if Kathy Zimmerman ever writes a knitting book, I’m first in line - I will step over you (after I have knocked you down) to buy her cabled goodness.

Huge amounts of not-quite instant gratification and a first lace project that will look beautiful - and it only toook me two years to get around to starting it.

There were so many people at the Ann Arbor Public Library on Sunday that latecomers (or those who simply wanted to sneak in a side trip to Zingerman’s, like my friend Jen and I) watched Stephanie on TV in the fourth floor conference room. On TV. The view was pretty good from what [...]

I know. Another dishcloth - that sound you hear is surely hell freezing over as I turn around and do everything knitterly I swore was not for me - odds are I’ll bust out with a shawl next. I feel I earned this finished object, though, because after making it through the [...]

Stash away, stash away, stash away all….