Knit One, Purl Too: A Knitlog

I am good at a lot of things (word scramble puzzles, the SSK decrease, meal planning, writing thank you notes), but I am not really a good swimmer. I do it anyway, because it’s the best exercise I’ve found, but I will never set any records, compete in the Olympics or cut a graceful [...]

I think I am officially forgoing any claims of knitting simplicity for the duration of the Turtleneck Shrug project: I didn’t reclaim the yarn from a thrift store sweater or swap for it, I didn’t buy the yarn on sale, I didn’t go with my first choice, less-expensive yarn…and I am now buying more [...]

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 [...]

For me, that would mean buying no knitting anything until…March 24. Yikes. An extra 23 days. Let’s see how the next forty-nine go, shall we?

First, the YNBA is a reflective thing, a period in which can consider my techniques and improve upon them. Two, and most important, I can already buy socks that don’t fit properly at any store on the planet. I make socks that fit.

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

Happy Holidays. and Happy New Year - after a brief break, I’ve already picked up the needles again, so I’ll have a progress report soon.

See? Math helps because my earlier guess that took me in the other direction (more stitches) was wrong! Guessing=bad. Math=good!

Holiday knitting in full swing here - as I said to Alison:
Two, count them two projects on the needles at once; a garter stitch scarf I’m calling Pemberley, because I’m knitting it while listening to the Pride and Prejudice audio book, and the first of three ribbed watch caps that I’m referring to as “my [...]

I could still use a little DPN driver’s ed. Onward and upward!