Grab bag
Lipmedic International Lip Balm Boutique, link via Kat. If you had any idea how many lip balms I've sent through the washer, you'd be getting shares in this place.
Charlotte's Web is beautiful, but it's a shawl. I'm not going
Topic
Knitting
A collection of 436 issues
Fiona (the bag) in progress
One ball of yarn is almost used up, and I have six Triple Crosses done. I think this is going to work. The stitches look decent, the bag is a little floppier than I was expecting, but it looks good. There's one "deliberately accidental" mistake on
Fiona (the bag)
I made a page for progress on my Fiona drawstring bag. The yarn I ordered on Sunday from Fiber Nooks & Crannys arrived today, beating the Acorn hat pattern I ordered from New York the same day. Kudos to Fiber Nooks & Crannys, they're fast, polite, and they
Stranded Colourwork
Nanette of Knitting in Color is writing a booklet on stranded colourwork, knitting with two or more colours at once. I'd love to try this, but I have no-one to teach me, so this booklet will be great. She plans to have the book on sale around June
Rescheduled
The Fiona Drawstring Bag is going to trade places with the Mermaid socks in my project schedule. This is for several reasons:
* It's spring. I won't be wearing wool socks until autumn.
* The Fiona knitalong starts on Saturday
* I have a yarn store trip planned for
Motivation
It was an accidental purchase. We were in England, in Bournemouth, which is on the south coast, and it got cold. Foolishly I had not brought a coat, not even a summer coat. Summer coats are for when it's too warm for the winter coat, but too cold
The Plan
Thanks to everyone who left guilt- and anxiety-inducing comments on my last post, I can feel it motivating me! So here is my brand new project queue, with no more than 3 WIPs at one time. I can't take any more than that. I came out as Completer-Finisher
Stress
The first major piece of knitting I completed coincided with my GCSE exams when I was 16. Chronically stressed and convinced I was heading for nine D grades, Mother helped me out by getting a big cone of yarn and a Fisherman's Rib sweater pattern. I was stressed,
Diet busting
I broke my yarn diet, but it's yarn for the next project in the queue, not just stash enhancement. It's for the umbilical cord hat from SnB for Jen's baby, which is due in the next couple of months. Lion Brand
Cotton Ease in
Superstitions
I'm trying to resuscitate my software project, Chronicle
. It's a Java blog publishing program, or it will be. It was a tragic victim of the SourceForge Kiss of Death. Fledgling software projects get registered on SourceForge with great enthusiasm, until the Kiss of Death strikes, and