I’ve been working steadily, if not so quickly, on the socks for my aunt. My chief blockers: work and moving prep. Work continues to be pretty busy, and not with the sorts of meetings I can knit on. It’s lots of trouble shooting and bug-slaying on our current project. This… Read More »New Socks
We have begun packing up our belongings to send them back to the United States. Most things are going into boxes to ship home, carefully cataloged both so that we can fill in the Customs Forms for shipping, and so that we know what is where. More treasured items will… Read More »Packing up and Room for Art
But I am so happy to have finished knitting a warm woolly hat! Because I’ve been planning to knit this one since I purchased the Shetland Wool Week 2019 Annual, and I love how it’s turned out. Also, hats are small, and thus not unpleasant to work on when it’s… Read More »I know it’s summer…
Entropy is a fact of life. Stuff wears out, decays, or is lost. We crafters and those who receive our oh-so-generous gifts are not immune to this. Still, it can hurt a bit when something we’ve made is destroyed or lost. I would say however, that the manner in which… Read More »The How Matters
I’ve been knocking out some spinning so far this week. My rainbow gradient is finished (well, aside from a wash), and I think it looks fabulously sunny and summery: I still need to count up the yardage, but I think I’ve got somewhere between 400-500 yards total. At around 200g,… Read More »Flavors of Bright
It’s day three of a heat wave in the land of no A/C, with daytime temps in the mid-90s/mid-30s and at night we don’t reach our low of 70/20-ish until around 4am. I am shutting up the house by 9am each day, and kitties don’t get more than 5min on… Read More »Blarg… so hot
After my virtual class on how to design my own color palette for the Shetland Muse hat, I wasted very little time in selecting and ordering yarn. And “by very little” I mean I’d picked them out and ordered within days. The color design sheet I’d made served me in… Read More »Sheepses
After flying through the socks for my aunt, and then working at consistent and fairly rapid pace to complete TheEnablers’ Zauberballe socks… I am working a bit more slowly on my own pair. I’m getting a few rounds done here and there, and they aren’t sitting idle for more than… Read More »So Many Fluffies, so little time
Over the weekend I finished up the last of the singles for my rainbow gradient! I took rather a lot of photos, but I’ve picked out just three for you to admire their colorfulness in their little turtle shapes. I enjoy how, when I flip them over, I can get… Read More »Six Little Turtles
I took two classes at Unravel over the weekend on Baltic knitting techniques, both taught by Aleks Byrd, a knitwear designer and illustrator with family roots in Estonia. The first was on Saturday on Baltic Braid techniques from Estonia and Latvia. I’d heard of Latvian braids before, and even did… Read More »Weekend Trip to the Baltics
