First, a lovely lovely robin-egg blue skein of silk – a gift from Cyn carried over from the UK. The other I can’t show. I can’t describe or name. It’s the most recent Rockin’ Sock … Read more
Fingering weight or leftover sock yarn is perfect for this pattern. I used US size 1 DPNs and a size 5 needle for casting off. Using the two-needle cast-on I described here, cast on 18 … Read more
I always do my toe-up socks with the same tried-and-true cast-on, which I adapted from a doubleknit cast-on from Principles of Knitting. Over the years, I’ve showed a few people how to do this at … Read more
Just, uh, all the rest left. Pulling out all my yarn to document it makes me want to make a pile of it in the middle of the floor and just roll around in it. … Read more
Just old stuff, and I don’t have everything documented. And that doesn’t even TOUCH my stash. The stash will be a multiweek project!
I’m going to lose the rest of the evening on Ravelry, Flickr (moving projects from the blog to Flickr), and LibraryThing.
I’m back. The Big Fat Hater is back. We’re happy to be back. I destroyed our shredder and bought a new one that is huge and hungry and I think might be a menace to … Read more
En route to Texas. Just realized I should really take out my teal extensions before Sunday. Missing Stephen a bit, but I’ll get to see him soon.
There are actually TWO patterns from the new Knitty I might want to make. Mr. Greenjeans and Cherie Amour.
It seems that the Yang Wen-li tea plus a long sleep is just the trick. Woke up to find that ants had attacked the cat food…. again. I followed them back to where they’re getting … Read more
I just don’t know how else to put it. Rather than rewrite the sordid tale out again, I’m going to copy-paste an email to a friend I wrote this morning. Stephen’s father went into the … Read more