I’ve been working on the buffalo silk cowl for TheEnabler on and off since August as an excellent purse project. The skein is 50g of lace weight and the pattern, Monroe, is basically k2 p2 ribbing for 14 of the 16 row repeat. Rows 8 and 16 aren’t exactly rocket… Read More »Cowl Conversions
Two weeks solid of a parade of guests it turns out is bad for blogging time. If I wasn’t hanging out with friends and family, I was working (it’s a bit too busy at work at the moment for two straight weeks off – and I want some time left… Read More »Guests are bad for blogging
I’ve been working on stage 5 and row 21 of the Ergane cowl for a couple days now. It seemed like it was going on forever. In an effort to buck myself up and prove there was progress, I counted how many of the repeats I’d completed. It was 15.… Read More »It’s not supposed to go on forever…
Last Sunday was not, as you may remember, a good day for fluffies. The entire train ride was consumed with detangling yarn. The week has since been better. On Monday, TheEnabler, his college buddy and I took the local train down from Cologne to Bingen, and from there took a… Read More »Cologne and beyond
We’re on our way to Koln (Cologne) and I was looking forward to a nice 4hrs of crochet on the train. Instead I had a major case of yarn barf from my nice cake. We have 10 min left and I’ve finally untangled it (with some help and moral support… Read More »Well that was frustrating…
I finished it. It’s completely cast off, and bigger than I fully realized. It covers more than half of our queen sized bed. I still need to figure out how to block it – I might just have to hold it under the shower… For some context, everything circled in… Read More »Holy Sheep It’s Done!
As I mentioned on my post yesterday, I’ve (despite a slow start last week) made good progress on the blanket. In fact, yesterday and today I made my targeted 12 rows per day and then some. I may even get a couple more rows in today. So I let myself… Read More »Rewards for good behavior…
The blanket it coming along. After a really slow beginning of the week, I’ve now just about caught up to where I need to be. It took me through Thursday to finish both sides of the next stranded colorwork sections: I really needed that done by Tuesday to be on… Read More »Just might get there…
I have stuck to my plan to knit only on the blanket when at home. In the past 8 days I have complete over 90 rows and about 10 inches. On Tuesday I declared with triumph that I was officially half way done the blanket. TheEnabler looked at my, laughed… Read More »I have been good….
Wednesday afternoon I headed for the airport to travel home. It was a crazy realization that “home” meant leaving the US and that I really did feel like I was going home. A first for this trip – I took all of my originally scheduled flights. So of the eight different planes… Read More »Back home and goal setting
