Posted in Desdemona Shawl, Fionn, Maine Morning Mitts, Punctuated Rib, Quincy Quade Quentin, Roger Socks, items for wee ones, knitting confessions, socks, sweaters on November 15th, 2010 2 Comments »
You might think, after working a month and a half on preparing a sock knitting presentation for my spinning guild, I’d be sick of sock knitting – almost, but you would be wrong. I promised mom a pair of birthday socks, and before I headed off into the wild blue knitting yonder to cast on [...]
My one regret? I turned off the Olympics after the (awesome) hockey game because I didn’t want to see the torch go out without having finished, and I missed William Shatner and the dancing maple leaves.
This was the last skein of yarn I bought before embarking on 9 months of Cold Sheeping, and it was knitting up suspiciously like kitchen cotton: not soft, not mom-worthy. So I gave it away, and broke my Cold Sheep streak after 290 days (I checked) with the Handmaiden Casbah, the yarn equivalent of dating a supermodel.
What kind of knitter am I? I love challenges, use deadlines as motivators and think knitting for other people is noble and worthy, as long as I also get to knit for myself. Still with me? I also know my eyes are bigger than my stomach, knitting-wise, since it takes me four years to finish [...]
It’s been an eventful month around these parts – work is exceptionally busy which explains why you get last week’s photo of the current sock instead of one taken yesterday, as I approached the toe. As you might have guessed, the sock is Paraphernalia, out of stashed Opal. This is my last ball of Opal [...]
Things were going so well. And yet, after a bang-up period in March that included two FOs and more than 1,000 yards knitted, I entered some kind of fugue state; just like Groundhog Day, I started the same socks over and over. I was willing the Punctuated Rib socks to work out with every fiber [...]
I was recently tagged for the perennial “7 random things about you” meme by the lovely Kat; I soon realized that if I didn’t get off my butt and post, my 7 things would be FOs, such is the knitting production in these parts. So, off we go. [For those who can't get enough lists, [...]
Much to my surprise, my return home from the road trip to end all road trips marked the beginning of what could only be called a finishing frenzy. At the frenzy’s center? An afghan for the Rebuilding Greensburg Block by Block project that I had hoped to have seamed up months ago. I had high [...]
Posted in knitting confessions on January 4th, 2008 4 Comments »
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. [...]
