I ripped the sock back and decided on a 3 x 1 rib for the top (and eventually the cuff). I love it! It looks so much better (see what it looked like before). I have been working on the sock today while at work (which is school). I am …
By 10 o’clock this morning, I had already used up all of my patience for the day – at the post office. That place just sucks the life outta me. But i was rewarded! I picked up my final package from my secret pal, who turns out to be Knitting …
Tonight I take off for a conference in Australia. One of the most exciting things about the trip (for me) will be the long plane ride. Time for knitting (about 15 hours, in fact)! My ipod and computer batteries can only last so long, and after that it’s me and …
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 …
This past weekend I wanted to make a small, but staisfying project. The poppysocks have looked too daunting lately. So I decided to make pair of baby socks. Pattern: from 50 Baby Bootees to Knit Yarn: Schachenmayer Micro that i bought from Elann a long time ago. But wait, it …
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 …
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 …
It’s weird, but I was just in Idaho again, and rather unexpectedly. I went to help my roommate collect some more rocks for her thesis. Man, it was hot there. Swinging a hammer and climbing precarious cliffs is so much more taxing when it is 90 degrees. But on to …
It would seem to me that since i own a cellphone, am a geologist (and am always surrounded by geologists), and live 23 feet above sea level that someone would call me to let me know that i am about to die in a tsunami. but no. No one that …