Sockses!
Ivy wanted to know why I hadn’t been blogging about my knitting. Answer: because with all the writing, I hadn’t been doing much of it! For Christmas, you remember I knit my husband a sock. *sigh* I finished the second…
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knitting
It came out in the blocking!
I’ve been making a baby blanket to raffle off at a charity event to benefit a local 4 year old with Stage IV cancer. About halfway through, I looked at the blanket and realized it was nothing but a series…
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Voices and passages
Ivy read a story of mine on the latest episode of KnitSpirit. It originally ran in The Cornell Review about 18 years ago, but I recently retooled it. She had asked for listeners to submit stories about angels, and as…
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Finishitis
I actually have nothing on knitting needles right now. I have one half-done crochet project I may finish up before starting my socks. First, here’s my Patient Husband showing off the pair of socks I finally finished for him last…
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Socked in at Christmas
I felt like I messed up every gift I was giving to my Patient Husband this Christmas. Three weeks ago, the print I’d ordered him off ebay arrived several shades darker than it had appeared online. The seller apologized and…
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The Noro Wavy Gravy hat debacle
Everyone seemed to love the one-skein Noro Kureyon Wavy Gravy hat, so I decided to try it. Went out, bought Noro Kureyon yarn (at 30% off, woohoo!) and brought the needles with me for Thanksgiving. I learned to do a…
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That darned hat
The scarf-for-me was made with Noro Blossom which I purchased on clearance. I had two additional skeins which I decided to turn into a hat (which was, to be fair, what Ivy told me to do with the original ones…
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Binding off loose ends
Right after I finished that beaded scarf in March, I cast on a beaded hat, using a modified sock pattern and much prettier beads than I’d used the first time. (You can click on most pictures to see them bigger.)…
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too pointy for you!
For starters, this is not the teacher’s fault. But once again, I’m furious about zero tolerance. Kiddo#2 has begun learning to knit. She’s excited about it and wants to make knitted bookmarks for everyone in her class. She’s got a…
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random catch-ups (and new publication)
Remember 24 hours in the life of a freelance writer? One of the pieces mentioned got accepted and published! I present to you, Thinking outside hundreds of little boxes. Again from 24 hours, remember the riding instructor who wanted to…
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