Delores Report
Dolores just got a package from Webs! I have definitely been slacking on getting some new outfits made for her. So we got a few kits delivered… Guess what I’m knitting next?
Month: July 2019
BYK Socks Started
The July project for the Boost Your Knitting pattern/technique club is for learning intarsia in the round. For non-knitters playing along at home, intarsia is a colorwork technique where you knit a pattern using one or more extra colors in just one area of the fabric, instead of carrying the other colors along the length… Continue reading BYK Socks Started
PB MKAL Clue 1 Done!
Clue 1 of Casapinka’s Perfect Blend MKAL is done. Clue 2 should be released at some point on Monday, so next up is starting some socks! Yarn sets for this MKAL are being done by Miss Babs (also a lot of other dyers, but Miss Babs was the dyer Casapinka originally worked with on it).… Continue reading PB MKAL Clue 1 Done!
Perfect Blend
Instead of finishing any of the other things I have going (blocking my crescent shawl, Forest Weave, Find Your Fade, starting my Year of Techniques socks) today I decided instead to cast on the first clue of Casapinka’s Perfect Blend MKAL. It’s a boomerang shaped shawl, which is pretty evident right from the start. The… Continue reading Perfect Blend
Flower Update
My flowers have mostly been coming along pretty well this year! We did have one fatality – we drowned a petunia we had in a pot on our porch, which was a shame. Otherwise, all is well 🙂 All the hanging baskets have filled in really nicely! The carnations and lobelias (?) keep on blooming… Continue reading Flower Update
Home Stretch
The knitting part is done! It will probably get blocked tomorrow night, then there’s just the pattern and photo stuff. Whew! I was looking at this one next to the two others of this design I have knitted, and I’m pretty happy with it. The pattern should have lots of options and flexibility, and directions… Continue reading Home Stretch
So Close
…and yet so far! I’m on the last mini-skein, and have maybe two more repetitions of the feather and fan wave section to go. Then casting off and blocking, and I am DONE with this pattern! Except for writing it out and getting pictures and publishing it. But other than that, I am done. I… Continue reading So Close
So Damn Hot
Anchorage has been having quite a week or two. We have hit records with our heat – 90 F the other day in Anchorage – and all the rest of the days for the last week and a bit have been pretty hot as well, although not as bad. This is pretty unprecedented for us.… Continue reading So Damn Hot
Next Projects
Forest Weave and v3 of my crescent shawl design are moving along reasonably well. There’s nothing much new to say about them, and honestly I’m at the stage where I’m tired of thinking about them. So today I spent some time getting ready for my next two projects! This month’s Boost Your Knitting project went… Continue reading Next Projects
Quite A Yarn 