1. Saroyan
This weekend, I finished my birthday present. Happy birthday, me.
Pattern: Saroyan (from feministy).
Yarn: Lonesome Stone Alpaca Worsted
Color: Shades of Aspen Leaves
Other than the Giant Chuppah of 2008, I think this is the first lace pattern I’ve really buckled down and finished. It was really nicely designed — the lace panel was so teeny, [...]
Traditionally, my New Year’s resolutions come with a hefty dollop of guilt. I don’t, by any means, think I’m alone in this. The very nature of a list of resolutions involves tasks that we feel a nagging need to do — lose weight, get married, lose weight before getting married, etc. Since my birthday is [...]
…is that it is too cold to go outside if the white powder is on the ground. So I won’t. At least not yet.
We’re in Tahoe this weekend. We finally arrived last night after an interminable car ride, during which I knit exactly two inches of Malabrigo Gruesa (color: Olive). I planned to bring my [...]
(Untitled Fantasy Novel is winning, though it’s a close thing. The dirty dishes are the real loser here.)
I’m at 22,241 words of a novel I never thought I could write. I am behind the NanoWriMo curve (I should probably be around 26,600 words by now) but I’m assuming it will all work itself out. All [...]
I was reading the CRAFT blog when I happened upon a crochet-along that caught my fancy. I can (technically) crochet, but haven’t for ages, and was thinking of proving that I still got it.
My daughter saw the brushed amigurumi panda, and she wanted it for her own. Who was I to deny her? I loved [...]
Project Spectrum is the creation of Lauren Weinhold of the Lolly Knitting Around blog. Her goal is to prod artists to explore the impact that color has on their lives and, in particular, their artsing and crafting, using a series of themes throughout the year. A good exercise for me, since, left to my own [...]
I dream of knitting sweaters.
This time, I think, it will be different. I will finish a sweater. It will fit me. I will be truly happy. But then I remember! It always goes wrong, and I am left with a half-knitted sweater and a heap of unresolved anger issues.
I opened the October 2009 Lucky — [...]
I have discovered Mason-Dixon Knitting, and I have drunk the housewares knitting Kool-Aid. oh yeah!
In a period of knitting bleh and the spleen that accompanies periods of excessive frogging, I found the women of Mason-Dixon Knitting, and their funny blog, and their hilarious books. The authors suggest knitting housewares because they are basically cute rectangles [...]
You should have a Serenity Prayer for frogging sweaters. You would address it, of course, to Elizabeth Zimmermann or the knitting deity of your choosing. It would allow you to accept the inevitability of knitting mistakes and foibles. You would say your prayer, take a deep breath, and frog away.
The following three sweaters are [...]
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Middlemarch
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