After frogging my lace cardigan, I felt powerful! I control my knits! But I also felt as though I needed to immediately start a new project with the same yarn to keep my momentum going. I poked through some lace patterns but in the end, I decided to go with the plain stockinette version of [...]
Read More..>>Ever since I pulled the premiere lace cardigan out of the in-progress box, I have had nagging doubts. The armscyes didn’t look right. The back looked too big. I really wanted to finish it for this spring, but I was scared that it would end up too big and I would never wear it. Last [...]
Read More..>>DH: You know, if I focused on one character at a time in WoW, I’d probably have it at level 70. But I get bored so instead I have one character at 56, one at 50, one at 44, one at 40, one at 32, and one I just deleted who was at 27. me: [...]
Read More..>>I generally pride myself on being a fairly intelligent person. To a fault, sometimes. Other times I look at myself and wonder how I could ever consider myself smart! Any guesses as to what is wrong with this picture? look closely at the spool of thread on the top I actually worked on a project [...]
Read More..>>
Comments(10) I have been trying to learn how to play ice hockey recently, so a lot of my once-knitting-and-spinning (and before the rsi issues got worse, crochet) time has become ice time. I still manage to squeeze in some knitting here and there. Today for example, the scene at lunch: knitting, a banana, and caffeine free [...]
Read More..>>I am my projects. I am the seasons. I disappear and reappear just as they do. I have been daydreaming about lace and spring after last week’s fling with 80° F temperatures. my premiere lace cardi, reappeared – now with the re-beginning of sleeves. Then the snow and ice reappeared, and I reconsidered the warmth [...]
Read More..>>Some people should not knit Norwegian stranded patterns right before bed. oops! look where the pink and purple yarn are sticking out… I am not sure what I was thinking, but I was carrying that yarn up the inside of the sleeve … somehow I put it on the outside. For four rounds. Brilliant! A-tinking-we-will-go… [...]
Read More..>>There has been knitting ’round these parts, squished in between a hockey practice session, a basketball game, a radiology lab visit and work. The knitting has mostly been of the technicolor chevron wavy scarf variety: on and on and on and on we knit It’s around 2.5 feet long now. I think I want it [...]
Read More..>>To co-opt Ashley’s (Dogged.) term, this is niecephew knitting! DH’s brother and his wife are expecting their first child this summer. “Oh oh, ” I thought, “kid knits, what fun!” So during a meeting at work (oops– this is what happens when meetings run beyond my concentration period) I came up with this design. I [...]
Read More..>> Comments(13)