I don’t think I’ve ever had to knit much out of necessity up until recently. Just this winter, I’ve needed to knit a lot more functional stuff than I recall having had to in the past. My thick winter socks, light of my feet, apple of my boots, are a pretty good example. My Wham Bam [...]
Also taggedI have to be honest, this pattern is so simple and cool that it hardly needs an FO report at all. But then you wouldn’t get to see this: Or this: Pattern: Wham Bam Thank you Lamb Neckwarmer from Insaknitty. It’s a garter-stitch rectangle that you then sew up, off-centre. It sounds like nothing at [...]
Also taggedI’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 [...]
Also tagged intolerable cruelty, Yarn makes it all betterOne 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 [...]
Also tagged awesome, intolerable crueltyOkey 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 [...]
Also tagged intolerable cruelty, knitting, socksSometimes 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 [...]
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