Progress on Black Coffee bumped into two roadblocks today, one minute, the other gargantuan. The first: lack of yarn. The second: my need to weigh pros and cons for an hour before spending money on yarn. Charging along merrily, congratulating myself on not fucking up the cast-on/join-do-not-twist stage, and then admiring some of the nicest [...]
Also tagged Black Coffee, yarn teaches hard lessonsI 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 [...]
Also tagged socksI 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 FO Report, intolerable crueltyIn 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, socksOkay, so it’s bag season around here, apparently. As soon as I finished my last Everlasting Bagstopper, I missed it. So I kinda started another one. Well, I mean, I like knitting them, and it isn’t like you only need one shopping bag, right? And on top of that, the brown paper bag I have [...]
Also tagged Everlasting BagstopperOne 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, FO ReportI’m still recovering from being sick and that means Recovery Knitting. If you continue reading this blog post, I can assure you that you are unlikely to find anything of interest. Surely you must know that Recovery Knitting means dull knitting? After all, when you’re ailing, you don’t want some flashy fair isle waggling its [...]
Also tagged Everlasting Bagstopper, intolerable cruelty, Silver SandsOkay, I’m going to spend a couple of paragraphs explaining what I’ve been up to lately, but bear with me: there’s knitting stuff coming up. On Friday, our orgy of packing and boxing and cleaning climaxed with Moving Day (there’s a metaphor that probably should have been shot in its early development). I have moved [...]
Also tagged etc.When I got to my work this tired Friday, I found: Yarngift! A coworker and fellow knitter saw fit to say thanks for some extra support I had given her at work and, well, let’s just say she speaks my language. This is a heavenly 50grams of 2ply merino/mohair, hand-painted by Touch Yarns New Zealand. [...]
Also taggedIt’s been a rough month, and it’s only the 14th. Now I know December is rarely the easiest of months for anybody (except for people still young enough to wear pyjamas with feet), what with Christmas shopping, winding up work for the year, school plays a-go-go, exams, graduations, work Christmas parties, the horror of extended [...]
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