The Olympics end this evening and I’ve been a busy knitter. When the Knitting Olympics started, seventeen days ago, I thought the most prudent thing to do would be to finish many of my half-finished projects. I was doing fine with that.
I began these mittens a while ago and am now just a few rows [...]
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This is the dec/jan pattern from the sixsoxknitalong. It was my first foray into shadow knitting and was a wonderful way to understand the mechanics of it. Not hard to do at all, and look how cool! I used koigu because really, what can say, ‘i love me’ more than hand-dyed merino wool?
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Posted in Knitting, WIP on Feb 11th, 2006 No Comments »
Well, the knitting Olympics have begun and I’m right there with my fellow athletes. Last week, I suffered a debilitating injury. I’ve been working on a sweater for Mark, another baseball sweater. This one is a replica of one Joe Jackson wore and is begin knitted in the ancient Pirates’ colors of cream, brown, and [...]
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