Knitting

Made a plushie for a swap: Pattern: Sock Piggee (Ravelry link) Yarn: Stash leftovers (Silky Wool and a cotton/acrylic) Needles: US2 dpns Duration: 29th September to 4th October Ravelry project: Lopsided Piggee The idea was to knit the plushie and take funny and inappropriate photos of it before sending

I made a second Landguard Hat to work out the bugs in the pattern, which I am now confident makes sense.  I tried an alteration on the turn up rows and found the original way was best, so I put it back the original way. Pattern: My Landguard Hat (Ravelry

Cold weather is very motivating when you have an almost finished and definitely gorgeous cardigan on the needles.  My Eris has been waiting for me: Between knitting morning and quiet evenings, I'm making progress and I've finished and grafted the hem.  I have sleeve decisions to

I got an experimental skein of Peace Fleece to see if it would be soft enough to make a wrap-front cardigan.  I gave up searching for the perfect hat pattern and made my own, the first project I would consider releasing as an official design. Pattern: My own (my precious!

I started these in March, whipped out one sock and got bored.  It languished on my desk until I had time off for surgery, when I picked it up and slowly worked on it.  Turns out "slow" finishes things faster than "not at all", and you

Finally finished my Campanula scarf.  It felt like this took forever, and how do you make scarf progress reports interesting? Pattern: Campanula from knitspot (Ravelry link) Yarn: Jade Sapphire Silk/Cashmere 2-ply Needles: US3 Blackthorn dpns Duration: 14th June to 13 September 2010 Ravelry project: Cashmere Campanula I started tweeting

The Cashmere Campanula Scarf (Rav link) is up to 22 repeats, and the ball of yarn is finally nearing the end.  You're supposed to do 25 repeats, I think I can get 27 out of. I started this on July 14th, and I'm more than ready

I should have learned this by now.  If I can see a mistake in my knitting and find it every single time I pick it up, I'm not going to be happy until I've fixed it, even if that means losing a chunk of work. My

Got two skeins of  Wolle's Yarn Creations Color Changing Cotton (2 x 240yds) from Etsy for a future smallish shawl: It's an odd yarn, four thin strands of cotton, totally unplied, which will make lace knitting difficult.  This will need to be used on a simple

Attempting to work my way through the sock yarn stash, I got Rosemary Hill's eBook Seven Small shawls.  The patterns are meant for sock weight yarn, and I have enough of that to make 24 pairs of socks.  There will be seven patterns, plus a few goodies, released