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
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
About a week ago, I finished up TheEnablers’ Crazy Zauberball socks: I was even pretty good about getting the ends woven in and giving them a nice bath, so by the end of the weekend my husband had a fresh new pair of socks to wear. I checked my project… Read More »Him and Her Socks
In 2020 I signed up for Undercover Otter’s Clan of Igor club. This left me with lots of yummy Undercover Otter yarns, but I also received little goodies each month of various types, from gummy worms to rainbow pens. One of those goodies was a little progress keeper in the… Read More »Might have gotten carried away
A little over a month ago, my husband and I learned that one of my family members has a terminal cancer diagnosis. As we don’t live nearby and due to Covid can’t even visit (literally probably can’t get there – definitely can’t in any helpful way thanks to quarantine rules),… Read More »A Last Project for a Very Knit Worthy Person
I finished the modified Päivätär Socks yesterday evening. I didn’t quite make it in my two week goal, as Friday was day 15. But really, I think that was pretty good. I had a very busy work week and TheEnabler and I had some other chores to handle over the… Read More »15 days and One Pair of Socks Later
But I’ve been busy knitting. Well, and working. Work is getting pretty busy too… So two Mondays ago (whoops! where did the time go?) my Stephen & Penelope yarn package arrived with wooly goodness: I’m thrilled with how the orange and magenta go together, so these are what I’m going… Read More »A bit behind on posting
If you knit socks, or anything really, you probably have yarn leftovers. But socks in particular always seem to leave me with extra fingering weight yarn. With a shawl, I can often fudge the pattern a bit to use every last bit. But socks… well, making them longer just to… Read More »So that’s what you do with yarn leftovers…
First, a mea culpa about the website. I tried to make something better, but I broke it instead. That’s on me. I’ll do my best not to do that again. Or at least… I’ll try to keep future down time to under a day. I can’t in good faith promise… Read More »Whoops
Get Lots done on Shawl: Check! I spent most of my plane knitting time working on this lovely item. It now looks like this: I am several rows into the first set of charts and second section of the shawl. Finish Socks Achieved! I even wore them yesterday, though hidden… Read More »Best Laid Plans…
