It didn’t take long for me to know that I’d made the right choice to rip out the sleeve and start over with different needles. Literally, just picking up the stitches to knit the sleeve told me things were going to be better, and every row just further proved this… Read More »The double work paid off.
I’ve been working more on the sweater I started a long long time ago on another continent. The body, collar, and bottom rib are completed and stitched down, and I love how it looks and it seems like a great fit. I started on the first sleeve a couple weeks… Read More »Condemned to Sleeve Island Longer with an Extra Sleeve
AwesomeE has another kid. I knew this baby was coming for months, as one typically does when the mum in question is your best friend. Now, I think there is some excuse for not making clothing until the baby is here. After all, you don’t know how big the baby… Read More »Surprise! I did another Baby Surprise Jacket
or Tale of Two Shawls I know for some people the hardest part of finishing a project is weaving in ends. I won’t claim to like this particular step, but it’s not the hardest thing for me to do. I have a yarn needle sitting among the things on my… Read More »Throwing a Winter Block Party
I actually got past those blasted triangles only a few days after having to start them all over again. I guess the 2nd time through I was a bit quicker. Maybe it was sheer willpower to get past them. Now I am happily onto the rest of the border. Let… Read More »Whew! Only had to knit it twice
I’m a math major. Reporting is part of my job. But apparently I can’t math. Slip 10 stitches said the instructions… and yet somehow I slipped 13 and dropped a stitch. All at the beginning of the row. I figured out something was wrong only when I was on the… Read More »I thought I’d made it… and then knitting disaster
I don’t often do KALs/CALs*, must less mystery ones. I generally don’t get my act together in time, and wouldn’t enjoy the pressure of trying to finish each clue in time. I can knit and crochet pretty quickly, but I can’t always find time. And often I have other priorities… Read More »Slipstravaganza: A 2020 Plan in Motion
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
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
