Today is my husband’s birthday. This means it’s going to be a short post, because I want to spend time with him. However, he’s currently distracted by a book. My book. My new book, on nalbinding. It arrived today and he’s sitting on the couch reading it. Yup, I have an… Read More »Happy Birthday, my biggest enabler
Damask Cowl continues, and I’m not bored yet. It has occured to me that I will need to make a decision about how big it gets eventually, but I don’t think I’m there yet. Overall, it has be a fairly straightforward pattern. A couple times I have forgotten an increase,… Read More »More of the Same
I have been working alternately on the kilt hose and my Damask Cowl (also a pair of socks and my mohair scarf, but those hardly count). I am, however, finding myself a bit conflicted. I want to make good progress on the socks, and the pattern is quite engaging. But,… Read More »Competing priorities
This week I’ve been playing a bit with making bouclé yarns. I’ve had a bunch of mohair top and mohair locks sitting around with just that plan in mind, but had not yet gotten around to giving it a try. A couple weekends ago, I finally bought my last “ingredients”: silk… Read More »Bouclé
So last night the kilt hose looked like this: Not bad right? Starting to look a bit more like a sock? It doesn’t look like that anymore. The larger cable there is the back of the calf, and it’s rapidly decreasing to nothing. But, upon a quick check with both… Read More »Frustrations in Footwear
Over the past few weeks there have been a lot of threads, posts and discussions of racism specifically, and various forms of privilege more generally, in the fiber arts and crafts communities, particularly as pertain to Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC). I’ve been thinking a lot about what, if… Read More »An Obligation to Listen and be Thoughtful
Or “I thought these would be faster” I have started the kilt hose for TheEnabler. I’ve had two of the six balls of yarn wound for a while, and I finally sat down to do the swatching I needed to do before starting in on them. We picked out the various… Read More »Good thing I like this yarn
I finished TheEnabler’s latest scarf today. It’s the one from Lana Grossa Tutti (mohair/alpaca) which I’ve been working on in bits and pieces since last fall. It’s been my “kitchen” knitting – ie: living in the kitchen and super simple enough that I could do a few rows here or… Read More »Well, this one seems a success
I took advantage of some of the sunlight we had over the weekend to get some pictures of projects finished a little while ago (also, it’s still light at 4:30pm which is AWESOME). Some socks look great on and off feet, but the more ribbing or lace, the more I… Read More »Catch up
I finished my leg warmers over the weekend, and they are what I hoped – warm and cozy. Great for indoors and outdoors. This is a very good thing, because man, that second leg warmer was a pain. I don’t know what happened to my brain because, after executing them… Read More »Warm and cozy
