I don’t know what it means either. Let’s talk about socks!
It is wintertime and my chronically cold feet were protesting. I love how warm my Doc Marten boots are, especially when coupled with handknit socks, but this winter the handknits didn’t seem to quite cut the mustard. Enter the thick, chewy bootsock.
I love them. They’re [...]
A couple of years ago (sweet merciful French fries, years? Yes. Huh.) I made my Mumini a sweater. It was in one of my (then) favourite yarns, Cleckheaton’s Merino Supreme, in olive green — and there is a whole rant up my well-cabled sleeve about that particular yarn, the heartbreaker; that callous, cruel, deceptive…focus, focus. Having [...]
Also tagged Purple Olive, restart, yarnosophyI 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 FO Report, skew, The Big Pre-Move ChallengeI spent far, far too long mulling over titles for this entry. “Sinews of Skew”; “Contin-skewed”; “It’s just Skew and me, baby”; “Skew-whiff” [not a good one when we're talking socks]; “The Skew from Here”…I don’t know what it is about the word Skew that I like so very very much, but it seems to [...]
Also tagged skewIn the midst of bags and Recovery Knitting, something odd is happening.
I cast on Skew within days of it coming out: it hit me right at an auspicious time, when I badly wanted something challenging (but not too challenging) and had just discovered and lovingly balled some sock yarn that I had forgotten I bought. [...]
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 [...]
The thing I like best about knitting socks is the frequent milestones. When you’re knee-deep in the twelve inches of plain, unshaped stockinette that make up the body of a sweater, it can be difficult not to get bored (and by bored, I mean you’re staring at your knitting and feeling sad and thinking [...]
Also tagged yarnosophyI finished a pair of socks this weekend! It’s not much, in terms of knitterly accomplishment, but just look at them!
These are my beloved Watermelon Socks. Behold how spring-ish they are! As pink ornamental blossoms are exploding all over the city, in fountains of pink and white foam, these socks seem perfectly in synch with [...]
Also taggedThe thing about knitting is…well, actually I’ve started that sentence umpteen times, always with a different ending. Knitting is so many things to me that it gets a bit weird if I start trying to list them all.
Sometimes it’s hard to remember the good things that knitting is for me — comforting, fascinating, intriguing and [...]
