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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Turtleneck Shrug on June 26th, 2007 5 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Multidirectional Scarf on December 14th, 2004 3 Comments »
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.
Posted in hats and mittens, scarves on December 29th, 2003 5 Comments »
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.
