More: It’s the American Way!
Posted in Knitting on Jan 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
More red, more white, more mittens.
Archive for January, 2009
Weekend Update
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting on Jan 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
The mittens are done, and by ‘done’ I mean thumbs knitted and any little holes near the base sewn up, all ends woven in, and ready to wear. Done can sometimes mean (for me, I mean) that the knitting portion of my program has stopped. If I didn’t like the shaping of seamed garments, every [...]
Stranded
Posted in Knitting on Jan 19th, 2009 3 Comments »
Snow, friends, Heroes: Season 3 on Netflix, and a little bit of alpaca.
Still needs the thumb, oh, yeah, and a mate.
This was knit on Sunday after sleeping in and going out to hear Enter The Haggis at 5pm so I don’t expect that it will take me 8 months to finish the pair. Unless you [...]
Minions
Posted in Crocheting, Finished Objects, Knitting, Pets on Jan 16th, 2009 3 Comments »
sometimes you just have to make them yourself.
When Bad things happen to good sweaters
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, Socks on Jan 8th, 2009 3 Comments »
Here’s the scene: camping on Mount Washington in December… sitting too close to the fire, you don’t realize that the burning smell may be your clothing…
Here’s a close-up of the damage
At the time, I told M that I’d prefer to knit him an entirely new sweater rather than repair the damage. This is what happened [...]
