In 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 [...]
Also tagged skew, Yarn makes it all betterOkey 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 FO Report, intolerable cruelty, knittingSometimes 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 [...]
Also tagged FO Report, knittingThe 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 “If [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Also taggedI don’t think of myself as a pink person — I mean, taste-wise, not appearance-wise — but I am loving these socks so hard. Crazy-hard-loving these socks. Every few stitches I pause, tilt my head to the side and lovingly readjust the stitches on the needles. These are my new beloved Watermelon Socks. I bought [...]
Also tagged awesomeWeekend performance review. Cooking Sourdough making: 17 points. (50 points for starting first sourdough bread dough; -25 points for forgetting to feed the starter; -20 points for the dud dough which did not produce bread; +12 points for coming up with name “Pongo” for the starter — have renewed zeal for maintaining starter culture) Yoghurt [...]
Also tagged etc.I wrote a little while ago about the start of my Anxiety socks, and now I’ve finally completed them. Huzzahs are in order! I finished the first one in a fit of unhappiness and anxiety, in a situation where there was a lot of driving in the car, a lot of waiting around, and a [...]
Also tagged FO Report, knittingI have had a stressful week. In preparation for a long car journey on Friday morning, I cast on this lovely sock. This is where it stood mid-Saturday. By Saturday night, I had a completed sock, kitchener bound-off and all. I cast on the second. Here we are on Monday morning, after another long yet [...]
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