First off, a big thanks to my secret pal! She (?) sent me some sock yarn AND a nerd rope!! yessss…. And they match each other. Perhaps i shall design a nerd-ropey sock pattern for the yarn…. What would that be like? Anyone have any ideas… I started another sock …
The tuesday night knitting circle at the Mel-O-Dee continues on… If you are in El Cerrito at 8 pm, stop by. Tuesday we talked about a lot of interesting things: A new knitter! Debbie did some successful recruiting at the Berkeley Knit in Public event. The cute little garter stitch …
These are toe-up socks of my own design knit out of koigu. Interestingly, one and a half of these socks were knit on two circulars… One sized 1 and one sized 0. oops! Here is a detail of the pattern. It is a slip stitch pattern that I thought kinda …
If it seems like I have been busy finishing crafty projects, let me show you what I haven’t been doing….. I present a gallery of barely UNfinished objects on the couch of shame. To begin, at the top left, the drop stitch cardigan from the Fall 2005 Interweave knits. The …
You might not want to read this for two reasons. the first is that i am going to talk about how sick i was the last two days. really sick. some horrible gut wrenching flu that sucked the life out of me. Really, it was the kind of flu that …
My Deep-V is speeding along… i have completed the waist decreases, so i can’t really try it on easily anymore. It looks pretty curvy… i hope it fits! I had some sock yarn dyeing success…. Inspired by the california poppy (i accidentally typed poopy first -hah!) (photo from flickr)I made …
The deep-V is going great! I love it. My row gauge is a little off, but I think I have compensated for it… Ugh. look how i stuck my hip out in this photo – I have been watching too much ‘America’s next top model.’
I used some handpaintedyarn,com Ejido 160 to start an Incredible Custom Raglan . Unfortunately i followed the directions a little too closely, and made a snug measurement around my neck. Of course, this resulted in the neck hole being the exact size of my neck…. And smaller than my head. …
But it turns out I just recreated one that already exists…. I used some of my handspun leftovers to knit a cadbury egg cozy. Mine looks a little ashamed…. like he just found out he’s not an original after all.
I’m cheating on all of my other knitting projects with this: It’s a little bit of handpainted Colonia that I bought just to see if i liked the color. I love it…. Look how it is making a double helix in the color pattern. Man, variegated yarns hypnotize me. It …