I’ve mostly been working on the cowl this past week. At this point I have the pattern memorized – once I was a dozen or so rows in it became possible to see what the next row should be based on the previous ones. I’m about two repeats into the… Read More »Quick update
Back in November I preordered the Winter 2020 PomPom Quarterly magazine because the previews for several patterns looked really interested. I received it a few weeks ago. I think I also mentioned I did a little stash toss and reorganization a few weekends ago. In the process, I came across… Read More »Through the Trees – Cast On
After finishing my Modular knit blanket last week and realizing that I have a growing pile of unblocked knits… I felt I should do something about it. So rather than rushing to cast on the next exciting thing, I diligently set about weaving in ALL THE ENDS. For the blanket,… Read More »Block Party
Over the weekend I finished up the main blanket, creating a neat square from all the trapezoids and triangles. I’d used up every scrap of rainbow yarn (and had to patch in some blue and orange to fill out the last rainbow shapes) and weighed out the remaining orange and… Read More »Well the knitting part is done
The vote was unanimous – pick one of the photos of the Cliffs of Moher. Ok, so The Vote was what AwesomeE said to pick. Y’all gotta step up if you don’t want her to let the power get to her head. After some careful deliberation, I settled on one… Read More »Cliffs of Moher and Kitten Prevention
Late last week I did finally get to have a go at one of the Knit Stars classes. I opted to start with the modular knitting by Tina Tse. It seemed like I could dive right in, and that the nature of the project would be conducive to knitting while… Read More »Why start easy?
I took off Thursday and Friday this week so I could watch and work on some of the Knit Stars classes, and work on felting. And then Tuesday night… I wrenched my right hand, spraining the tendons on the back on my hand where they connect to the wrist. And…… Read More »Such bad timing
This past Tuesday was election day in the US, as pretty much the whole world knows. I am relieved to see that Biden is the projected winner at this point. A (much much) smaller personal victory also occurred Tuesday: I placed the last bead on the edge of my shawl.… Read More »Placed my last bead
I’ve been making steady progress on my lace shawl. Of course, it doesn’t really look like much progress. It is fairly slow going, but also it’s just a long crumpled snake of unblocked lace at this point. I’ve been marking progress with locking stitch markers after every five repeats, so… Read More »Progress Measured in Beads
I am happy to report that my Knit Stars 5.0 purchases, aka “all my 2020 Yarn Budget” arrived safely. Even better? Customs had no trouble calculating what I owed so they could deliver it straight to me instead of requiring that I go to the customs office. Slightly awkward? I… Read More »Some quick updates
