I’ve been knocking out some spinning so far this week. My rainbow gradient is finished (well, aside from a wash), and I think it looks fabulously sunny and summery: I still need to count up the yardage, but I think I’ve got somewhere between 400-500 yards total. At around 200g,… Read More »Flavors of Bright
It’s day three of a heat wave in the land of no A/C, with daytime temps in the mid-90s/mid-30s and at night we don’t reach our low of 70/20-ish until around 4am. I am shutting up the house by 9am each day, and kitties don’t get more than 5min on… Read More »Blarg… so hot
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
Just a quick post tonight before I hop on our Friday night family Zoom call: I’ve picked my “Oppositional” top back up and I’ve finished the central blue/green reverse stockinette section. I did some short rows and some gentle decreases towards the waist after the bust – not super form… Read More »Friday Flash Post
Sorry for being a bit radio silent for the past week! I really have no good excuse lined up this time… My fingers have not been idle though – they just haven’t been typing blog posts. I’ve been working away at my Oppositional top and I’ve made it to the… Read More »An Unpopular Opinion
I think many of us have fantasies about being somebody we aren’t, or certainly we did as children*. Whether ballerina, astronaut, or dinosaur, we all had make-pretend. My brother justified his toddler-biting-people phase with the explanation that he was a crocodile. Or maybe it was an alligator. My sister was… Read More »Badass or Total Dork?
On Saturday, the last two months of my Clan of Igor subscription from Undercover Otter arrived. They were dyed and shipped together due to some challenges in getting the yarn sourced for November – it was going to be late. Thanks pandemic. Anyway, as usual, I realized I hadn’t shown… Read More »A Year of Igors and Otters
I finished my WestKnits “Clawed” shawl about a week ago. It was definitely an excellent project to work while integrating a kitten into the household. All the following made it easy to put down quickly if a kitten was getting himself into trouble, whether knitting related or other trouble. simple… Read More »A good kitten project
I made a little more progress on my Arequita tunic. The front is now only a little bit shorter than the back and once I finish the decreases on the front, I’ll be able to knit the front and back at exactly the same measurements throughout the remainder of the… Read More »Sooo many tangles
