Posted in Flower Basket Shawl, South Fork Socks, flash your stash, gift knitting on May 18th, 2011 3 Comments »
Thirteen months to knit the first chart, four days to knit the rest. It was a lost weekend of the best kind. Evelyn Clark, I love you.
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 [...]
Posted in Pop-up Paws, knitting confessions, knitting in public, meadow flowers shawl on April 26th, 2007 3 Comments »
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 no one [...]
Posted in cable and rib, meadow flowers shawl, shawls on November 15th, 2006 2 Comments »
So, is this blog going to be “all Cable and Rib” all the time for the next two years while I finish this sweater? First of all, I am finishing this thing before the end of 2007, if I have to ring in the new year with Dick Clark and my Addi Turbos. I am totally starting a knitalong called “I Thought I’d be Done By Now,” membership: me.
Posted in meadow flowers shawl, shawls on October 22nd, 2006 4 Comments »
But if this were a pair of socks or a cabled hat? You bet I’d be done on time. Damn.
Posted in knitting confessions, meadow flowers shawl on September 8th, 2006 7 Comments »
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.
Posted in meadow flowers shawl, shawls, sweaters on July 10th, 2004 5 Comments »
It’s lacy, but not fussy, and I love the pop of color – orange is the new black after all.
