Knitting

Now I'm a real knitter.  I was working on an umbilical cord hat for Ceci's baby girl (Lion Brand Cotton Ease in radioactive orange) and a spotted a really loose stitch.  It looked bad.  Several others on the same row looked bad too.  I thought about

The plan was to get a bunch of women together once a month to knit, sew, quilt, crochet, and talk.  This Saturday it was in my house, and it was great!  Between the three knitters, we taught Irene, Eileen, Patty, Nora, and Natalie how to knit, all of them left

(The trouble with network outages is that you get three blog posts queued up and you can't publish them.  Even your email vanishes into the void.) Has ever a pair of three inch tall hand-knit mini-socks travelled as far as these? Starting in St Louis, they've

There is a point in knitting a sock where you're not doing any shaping, or patterns, or anything interesting, and that point seems to go on forever.  Welcome to Sock Limbo, and no matter how hard you knit, you're stuck there.  For me it's

At what point does a knitting pattern become your own?  I'm working on Sehlat's birthday socks and I wanted to make something unique.  I'm using two elements from different patterns, and making a few of my own changes.  Far as I know no-one'

Completed the saucer to go with my teacup.  I chickened out of the i-cord bind-off again and used a needle four sizes larger to bind off with, I think it worked. And this is the completed teacup: The cup is the same width as a Coke can if you were

Completed the first cup of my Fiesta tea set Tuesday night and left it blocking on a can of raspberry soda.  Now it's top-of-the-can shaped, and it looks good!  Working on the saucer now, coming up for the bind off.  This is a fast knit, I only started

Spotted the pattern for the Fiesta Tea Set by Annie Modesitt in the Summer 2004 Interweave Knits and fell in love with it.  I've ordered her book, Confessions of a Knitting Heretic, just waiting for it to arrive.  Also waiting for my stranded colour knitting book by Nanette

The Itchy Feet hiking socks Travel Bug I knitted is currently somewhere in Minnesota.  I made a miniature pair of Mermaid socks from Lucy Neatby's Cool socks, Warm feet book.  It's just been picked up, and the geocacher who nabbed it left this comment: ...gathering TBugs