Today’s Lesson

You know how all the instructions in every knitting book ever strongly encourage you to block your swatches?  Yeah.  I'm here to remind you of the same thing.  This time with a demonstration. You see, I'm working on a little cowl.  It's a lovely fabric, open without being lacy, structured without being stiff.  I'm rather taken with it.  The yarn was new to me (Handmaiden's Silk Twist), so of course I swatched.  And because I'm lazy and only want to knit it once, I blocked my swatch.  It's a good thing I did, because the swatch grew by about 50% [...]

April 19, 2012|

Look, Knitting!

See, look at that.  A post with actual knitting content.  You thought I'd strayed from the true path and it was going to be all exams/kittens/books around here, didn't you?  I'm not saying your concerns were unjustified, but I can at least put your mind to rest for the moment.  I have made many many tiny sock stitches. These are the sanity socks, started during the project from hell, picked up again when the neighbor kids showed up with an unexpected kitten, and continued on the flight to the woods (in between restorative naps).  They're in the Casbah sock by [...]

July 20, 2011|

Yarn Report

Perhaps not surprisingly, we somehow managed to slip into a few yarn stores on our trip this past weekend. Imagine that.  Shocking I know. Our first stop was the Cultured Purl in Erie, PA (what, it was on the way...more or less).  It was the first time I had seen Sweet Georgia yarns in a store.  Luckily, I have quite a bit of SG sitting around here, so I was able to grab something new.  I picked up two skeins of Filigran by Zitron in what seems to be collor 1603 (such an evocative name).  This is a single ply [...]

June 29, 2011|
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