Posted in WIP, scotland on Nov 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Netflix was kind enough to send us the first disk of Lord Peter Whimsey, The Nine Tailors. So despite the fact that my children have taken to giving the dust bunnies names, I spent two hours after work to watch and knit.
I knit 7 rows (of 406 stitches) for a total of 2842 stitches. At [...]
Posted in Knitting, Stash Acquisition, WIP on Nov 16th, 2009 3 Comments »
Rhinebeck, 2008. The one thing I didn’t buy (and there was one), was a Shetland 2000 kit from Yarns International. I thought about it for the better part of a year. So when Rhinebeck, 2009 rolled around, I was scouring their website, trying to select the kit of my dreams.
Mark chose Scotland as his sweater [...]
Posted in Books, Finished Objects, Sewing, Technical HoOOoHa!, WIP on Sep 20th, 2009 6 Comments »
I’ve been on a quest to make a perfect tam. By ‘perfect’ I mean that it is my own design in which I demonstrate a complete understanding and unbelievable expertise in knitting, charted design, and color selection. Why I think this is fun after working a full day in complete mayhem, I have no idea. [...]
Posted in Essentials, Everything Else, Knitting, WIP on May 30th, 2009 1 Comment »
Lately, I’ve been working on several projects at once. As I was racing around the house yesterday, trying to find all of the pertinent pieces of paper for the projects du jour, I cursed myself one more time for being disorganized, being scattered, having too much going on…what was I looking for again?
At least this [...]
Posted in Dyeing, Knitting, MLB, Socks, Summer of Socks, WIP on Jul 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
I bought a couple of skeins of cormo from Martha’s Vineyard Fiber Farm. Despite the 4 tons of yarn I have in my stash, I feel very careful of these skeins. The first one became a cowl. The second skein, also worsted weight, was swatched for a hat. I will still design the hat, but [...]
