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,...
View ArticleOne Down
The Tumult cowl is off the needles and blocked. I finished it up on the drive home from Maryland Sheep & Wool. It’s lovely and light and lacy. It will look splendid on an actual human. It looks...
View ArticleStacks
I feel a tiny bit bad that it’s been so long since I’ve put out a pattern. The last one was Chamfer in what, February? Now to be fair, the e version of The Knitter’s Curiosity Cabinet did go live in...
View ArticleLest You Think I’d Stopped
So just because my dining room has been turned into shipping central (with an annex in my living room and another in my car) doesn’t mean I’ve stopped knitting. Though to be fair, the knitting has...
View ArticleNearly Unheard Of
Shocking though it doubtless will be, I’ve actually done some knitting. Yeah, real live actual knitting. Not swatches, not double checking a fiddly bit for some giant upcoming project (I’m looking at...
View ArticleRabble Rousers Giveaway, Take Three
Do you guys mind if I do this giving yarn away thing again? I’m hoping not, because I’m having fun! I’ve got a skein of Handmaiden Silk Twist to give away. This is the yarn I used for the Tumult...
View ArticleBits and Pieces
There is absolutely no coherent theme to my life this week. This means there is very little in the way of cohesion in the blog posts either. Sorry guys, it’s that sort of day week life. So, in no...
View ArticleSidetracked
The sock, it is not yet finished. It was a productive weekend in lot of other ways though (if by productive you’ll take ‘relaxing’ and ‘enjoyable’), so I’ll pretend I don’t mind the delay. This is,...
View ArticleSuspicions
My longstanding love affair with Handmaiden’s Casbah sock is well documented. I’ve knit four pairs of socks with the stuff (Slant, Graupel, Rampant, and the as of yet unnamed socks), which is just...
View ArticleRampant (plus giveaway)
I am not the type to have any sort of holiday knitting plan. I don’t knit special things for Valentine’s Day or Halloween or even Christmas, much less time my patterns to coincide with them. So you...
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