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
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
For months now one of my knitting projects has been languishing in it’s project bag, untouched. This isn’t so much because I didn’t want to work on it, as that I feared working on it. It’s a lace shawl with a heavily beaded edging. I’m still working on the edging,… Read More »Brave or foolish?
So I finished my Arequita Tunic a little while back, and just realized that you never actually got pictures of the finished product. This, even though I’ve worn it several times already. Suffice it to say… I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. The contrast panels look great, it… Read More »Only worn about four times
Back in 2018, one of my yarn buys was the Unplanned Peacock morphic colorway “Strawberry Fields”. It’s been hanging on my bedroom wall ever since, until it was bumped from the wall in my enthusiasm to hang up my needlefelt sunset. It’s the last if the Unplanned Peacock I bought… Read More »Morphing plans
