I’ve been in a bit of a funk for the past week or so, and I think it’s because I’ve yet to find a new job. A few weeks ago I left my job, and after my last day we went on a long planned vacation to visit my in-laws. I came home a little [...]

The first time I ever knit with Southwest Trading Company’s Tofutsies I really fell in love. Since then I’ve worn the socks many times, and they have worn up much better than all the rest of my handknit socks. I’ve come to the conclusion that merino is not for socks despite its prevalence among sock [...]

Today I’ve got just a quick post on something that I finished a couple of weeks ago. When I went on my birthday trip to buy fiber with my husband I saw some linen yarn at the store. I’ve been wanting to knit with linen yarn for the longest time, and my local yarn store [...]

I finally brought out the hat tonight, hoping it was going to look penitent. I’m not sure whether or not it did, but I certainly had more motivation to put time into fixing it. I’d originally started this hat bottom up, cut off the ribbing to pick up stitches and knit down again. I wanted [...]

Time and swatching have really paid off. A lot of times when I’ve got an idea for something I want to knit, I try to go the quick way out. I knit the piece just how I think it should work, and there’s always something off or something I need to creatively work around. I [...]

Because of a new scarf idea, I’ve been scouring the internet and what books I have for old lace patterns. I should be more specific and say that I’ve been searching for garter stitch lace edging stitch patterns. During my search I’ve realized that I don’t have nearly enough old publications about knitting. The little [...]

I am really proud of myself. I have only done colorwork in knitting two times, and you’re looking at one of them. I’ve been wanting to knit a Christmas stocking for a while, and got the motivation to swatch out my ideas last week. I sketched out a few potential charts and liked this one enough [...]

I’ve got a lot of progress on the hat I swatched for a few days ago, but it’s in the corner right now. I’ll write about it later when I’m not sick of it. I’ve got more fun things to show you today. I’ve been wanting to knit the Knitty pattern Square Cake for some time [...]

OK so it’s totally wierd showing a picture of my ass on the internet, but it’s totally covered and it’s for a purpose. That secret newly completed project I mentioned in a previous post is indeed the Mon Petit Chou from Knitty. I spent all day Sunday finishing it, finally got some elastic and ribbon [...]

It really is quite boring, and mostly stockinette, but with a point. I’ve had a couple balls of Misti Alpaca for a bit that I bought with the intention of making a hat. I rethought the idea for a bit, then decide for it again, then thought slippers would be good…See I’ve had this problem [...]