On Wednesday, after a looooong day at work, and a nice dinner our with Dru, and then straight on to a good knit-night at Lettuce Knit, I finally arrived home to find these!
Not one, but two packages!
Of course, I dove right into them, but not before getting my camera! (Sorry for the poor photo quality, [...]
… but now it was understood that something quite exceptional was being planned for that autumn. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age…
This is my eleventy-first blog post. In the grand tradition of hobbits everywhere, I think this curious number is quite special, and [...]
Be careful what you wish for…
When I asked Krista what she wanted for her birthday last week, I’m not quite sure why she answered, “a tea cozy shaped like a chicken!” But that is what she got.
I figure that if I were to write up a pattern for this it would hurtle me straight [...]
While I am experiencing rather severe startitis these days, and my WIPs are taking over the living room, I do occasionally manage to get things finished, too! Having a quick project full of interesting yet easy-to-intuit details and worked in a truly luscious yarn certainly helps.
I worked all the cabling without a cable needle, [...]
Once upon a time, there was a spinster with two cats.
Well, actually, she was happily married and just happened to have two cats, but she was a spinster, in that she spun.
She loved to spin. Spin yarn, of course — although who doesn’t like to put their arms out and stare up at the [...]
Have you seen the latest issue of Spindle and Wheel?
Have you checked out the free patterns? Did you notice anything… familiar?
That’s right! My little Autumn Tea Cozy has now hit the big time as Tea Time!
There’s also my fast-and loose SuperQuick Fingerless Mitts! These were so easy to knit it barely feel [...]
Remember when I was bemoaning my fate, pining for my unattainable love, the Princess Shawl? I shall never forsake my dreams of knitting her, my darling always, but there is a coquettish new lace project that has turned my head, and may yet capture my heart.
Have you seen the soaring beauty of Anne’s [...]
This may be a long-overdue finished object post, but it was one of the most satisfying knitting experiences I’ve had in a long time. It was simple, but never mindless; challenging in concept and elegant in design; resulting in a handsome, practical, and now well-loved sweater.
Cobblestone yoked pullover.
Detail of garter-stitch edgings.
Detail of garter-stitch [...]
You guys have been holding out on me. Why hasn’t anyone told me yet how awesome podcasts are?
Or is it maybe just me — have I been living under a rock or something?
Well, if that’s so, then I have emerged out from under my rock, blinking in the light and flooded with wonderful sound.
This [...]
I’m debating joining in the NaKniSweMo.
Ever since finishing Cobblestone (I swear, that’s one long-overdue FO post, but there has not been a drop of sunshine with which to properly do a photoshoot for it, and I love it so much I want you all to see it in full splendour)(also, Dru does not seem [...]
