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
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
