It’s New Year’s Eve, so we’re counting the hours now until the midnight. In Germany, fireworks are legal (if you’re not from the states – know that they are various levels of legal/illegal in each state for amatures and many states greatly restrict them) and the celebrations began as soon… Read More »Countdown
Just how involved blocking is varies based on the object, yarn and your goals. For socks, it’s just giving them a wash and laying them out to dry. For sweaters, it often means simply tugging and pinning the shapes into the right sizes. For lace, it can be more complicated… Read More »Blocking a mobius
For those who celebrate, I hope you had a Merry Christmas. We had a lovely relaxed Christmas. I did a lot of the cooking Monday so that Tuesday morning was just the turkey and making the cranberry chutney. We had a Christmas lunch and then headed out for beers at… Read More »Christmas Crafting Time
My work trip was good, but intense so as suspected, I didn’t get to see a lot of London. We’d leave for the office just as it was getting light, and get back well after dark (it is December – it gets dark early, by 4pm more or less.) I did… Read More »Back from London
On Saturday I completed an act of bravery – I ordered yarn online, from a German site, and didn’t use Google Chrome’s translation services. Nope, not a word. Found my yarn, the right colorways, check out and everything. Even figured out the shipping and returns policies to a sufficient degree… Read More »Daring and a bit of Good Luck
TheEnabler and I replentished our squash stores this weekend. There were butternut squashes back in our grocery store and we pounced on a pumpkin we saw at one of the small grocers downtown with a feeling of relief. We’d come to the realization that we would only have one pies’ worth… Read More »Renewed Food Stores
Progress on the Luck Dragon socks continues. TheEnabler makes gleeful sounds each time he sees me working on them. I’m about 3/4 of the way through sock #1 and based on a quick weigh of my ball of yarn, should be in the clear to get two socks from it.… Read More »Dragon Fire
Over the past week I’ve been working on a new pair of socks for my husband. The socks I made him four years ago are starting to look a bit worn, and he was admiring the Latvian Socks I was working on earlier this year. I was slightly surprised that he… Read More »Luck Dragon Socks
Last night I finished my Zinone top. I’ve been pretty eager to wear it, so I actually immediately wove in my ends and blocked it instead of pretending cast off = done for a bit. Apologies for the poor picture, but TheEnabler has been swamped with work this weekend so… Read More »Finished!
We haven’t buckled and turned on the heat yet (well, except 30min in my office only that one super cold rainy day early in October). This is thanks to three things: 1) good insulation, 2) being cheap (me, not my husband), and 3) good woolies. We’re both clad in nice… Read More »Woolie Chic
