Posted in Fionn, sweaters on December 7th, 2010 1 Comment »
Whenever I say I am going to stop knitting to deadlines, let’s just all assume that I am L-Y-I-N-G. Apparently, I love the added frisson of uncertainty (Can I get it done?) more than I loathe the agony of defeat. I brought this on myself. Way back in January, I started Fionn for my lovely [...]
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 Fionn, Leyburn Socks, Spinning, socks, sweaters on June 28th, 2010 6 Comments »
For me, learning to spin has been an exercise in patience. I balanced the idea that every time I tried to spin it was hard and I sucked against the notion I kept reading about: it takes a pound of fiber to get any good at spinning. So if I gave up before I had [...]
Posted in Fionn, Spinning on February 8th, 2010 2 Comments »
Do you remember the first yarn you stashed? I do; I found a single skein of Paton’s Ballybrae in navy Black Forest Tweed at my (very) local LYS not too long after I first picked up the needles. It was already discontinued in 2003, so with my usual retail obsessiveness I set off on a [...]
