I’m sure that, like me, you don’t really get to choose your knitting projects as they’re chosen for you. Personally, mine selected by a team of zebras with a curiously high interest in all things sartorial and fibre-related. “This one.” They say, standing around me in a stripey ring of stern instruction. “Knit this one.” [...]
Also tagged Mossy TendrilsWell, I didn’t quite finish Silver Sands before the move, but I did a week later: we moved into our new place on Friday, and I finished them the Saturday of the week after — that’s gotta count for some sort of commendation, right? I’d settle for a poorly-printed participation certificate. Anyway, they’re gorgeous. This [...]
Also tagged Silver SandsI finished my Skew socks! One of the key contenders on the Finish-Before-The-Move knit-list, I love these socks. I thought I cast them on the day they came out, but they’re from the Winter 2009 Knitty, so that surely can’t be right. Anyway, I love them. I did not, however, love the process of trying [...]
Also tagged skew, socks, The Big Pre-Move ChallengeI finished it. Say hello to Intolerable Cruelty 2: Silver Cruelty.
You know what that means? (I can go up stairs! I can casually pose in the kitchen!)
I’m on the mend. I held off finishing this skirt because I cast it on the day I got sick and then I kept being sick; and then I stuffed [...]
One of the things about Intolerable Cruelty 2 (progress report: no progress) is that it involved me rescuing this yarn from the go-to-charity box I established in a fit of decluttering earlier this year. I have been carrying this silvery tweedy cotton/linen blend for years and years, and this February I had a bit of [...]
Also tagged Everlasting Bagstopper, Yarn makes it all betterWho knew how awesome a knitted skirt could be?
Tawnee, pictured here eating leftovers she found in the grass, suspected, but didn’t say anything.
This is a seriously awesome pattern.
Having droolingly admired this pattern on Ravelry a few times, I realised the only thing holding me back from possessing such an awesome garment was — what? My [...]
Okey dokey folkeys, let’s talk knitting. M got me a new camera for my birthday before we headed to NZ, and I have been ROCKING that baby. And its macro setting.
UFOs! (bold text to indicate sub-heading!)
Silver sands scarf: not wild about the striping, but I’ve decided it’s not for me anyway. Hoping to whip up [...]
Sometimes I do that thing where I don’t write for so long that I get scared about going back to it, scared that when I do finally put fingers to keyboard, I’ll have forgotten how — or worse, discover that I never really knew.
I finished NaNoWriMo and I couldn’t be more astonished. The piece I [...]
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes! Headless photos of my new love:
Finished this baby on Sunday, while M and I were tucked up on the couch, each wrapped in a doona and each slight-to-moderately hungover. I tried it on and decided it was far too tight and I was a fool of a knitter, etc. [...]
Also tagged CoronaI don’t think I’ve knit anything so pretty for a while.
This pretty, lacey, elegant shawl is for my pretty, lacey, elegant Mumini’s birthday. Which makes it nearly a month overdue, but I bought her some earrings to distract her on the day.
Provided you’ve been paying close attention to the blog and not drinking all the [...]
