A hat in slow motion

If you wandered over from pinterest and are looking for the pattern, it's called Pelagic and it's out on ravelry! First things first, you've got to put your time in on the band.  There's no way around it. But then you get to play. I'm pretty sure this is exactly the right thing to do with that yarn you bought in an effort to be more colorful, but then you realized you are secretly a little scared of too much color, and so you tucked it away in the back corner of your stash where it couldn't give your other [...]

May 23, 2016|

Easy enough

So I love that you guys are enthusiastic about the idea of listing the sizing information for the sock patterns in the next book in multiple gauges.  That actually makes my life secretly easier, as I may possibly have requested a couple of thicker yarns already.  And if you guys are cool with it, then I don't have to have the internal debate about 'do folks know they could totally do this with skinny yarn instead? because they totally could do that.'  Instead I can just say 'skinny yarn? You'll get these sizes. Thick yarn? You'll get these sizes.' and [...]

May 15, 2016|

Diluvian (plus giveaway)

It's possible I shouldn't be this entertained by a sock.  In fact I probably shouldn't be (or at least I shouldn't admit in public).  But I can't help it. Diluvian hit pretty much every one of my sock sweet spots, and I'm delighted to bring them back out. Now in my heart of hearts, I think it's hard to beat the fit of a basic ribbed sock.  But I also find basic ribbed socks boring...boring to knit, boring to look at, just totally not worth the trouble.  But give them a bit of a twist?  Sneak in some dropped stitches? [...]

March 15, 2016|

Oh this needs to happen

So it's about time I show you something I've knit.  Except that I don't actually have anything I've knit to show, so I'll have to do something much much better and show you something Katie (who knits an astonishing number of the knitted things you see in my pattern photos) knit instead. These are the reincarnation of the gray socks I ripped out back in October.  I wrote up the pattern, paired it up with some yarn (and oh if this isn't the perfect thing to do with a solid yarn I don't know what is) and now I have [...]

December 9, 2015|

Acquisitions

We've been away for a bit.  We were up in Maine.  (Yes, again. No, I'm not at all sorry. Yes, we are actually considering just moving there and saving everyone quite a lot of driving time.)  Rather than bore you with the details (water, oh so many rocks, sea treasures, cocktails, pumpkin fest, beer week), I thought I'd be all noble and restrained and mostly just flash some yarn.  Because no one actually wants to hear about anyone else's vacation.  It's almost as boring as hearing about someone else's dream.  Yarn on the other hand, everyone wants to know about [...]

November 1, 2015|

Unearthed

A recent toss of the secondary knitting basket (don't look at me like that, I know some of you have them, too) revealed by far my oldest WIP. As far as I can tell, I put that down some time in the summer of 2011 and haven't touched it since. For those keeping score at home, that's one whole sock and pretty much the whole leg of another sock.  That should, in theory, be the fastest path from me to a shiny new pair of socks. Alas, in this case, the theory doesn't quite hold true.  The first sock truly [...]

October 22, 2015|

Change of Plans

A hat appeared, fully formed, in my head.  I knew pretty much everything about this hat: how it would be patterned, how the decreases would work, even how the sizing would work.  Everything except the yarn.  So I did the normal thing.  I tossed the stash, found nothing, and then ordered more yarn. The yarn came, it was lovely.  I swatched, I did math, and I cast on.  But alas, it wasn't right.  It's not the yarn's fault.  It is awesome yarn and will undoubtedly find its way onto my needles at a later date, just not now. So I [...]

September 3, 2015|

Toss

Those of you who have not had the distinct pleasure of living with me may not know one of my dirty little secrets.  I am a stress cleaner.  If I am feeling frazzled, I tidy things.  And, conversely, if things are untidy, I feel frazzled. So yesterday, when I went to put something in my office closet and took full account of the mess in there, I sort of snapped.  I decided that I simply had to take an hour or two out of the day and purge the stash.  It was a fairly brutal purge if I'm being honest.  [...]

March 6, 2015|

Loot

I went to Rhinebeck and didn't buy yarn.  I know this sounds a bit odd, but I get rather frazzled when I find myself somewhere crowded.  I bailed out after less than three hours.  I wanted very badly to be elsewhere, so we left.  Luckily, we were up in Maine after Rhinebeck, and Maine seems to be exceptionally well supplied with yarn stores.  I visited quite a few of them. Of course we went into Portland, which means of course we went to KnitWit, which means of course I bought yarn from Quince & Co.  Rather a lot of yarn actually.  [...]

November 2, 2014|
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