By using lunchtimes and the drive time back and forth to last weekend’s fiber festival, I have finally gotten to the heel part. It is an afterthought heel, so the waste yarn is in, and now I’m starting on the leg part. I have an inch and a half or so to go, then it’s… Continue reading BYK Sock Progress Report
Mom, DH and I went to our local fiber festival today, and had a great time! Well, Mom and I did. DH had a good food-truck lunch and got in some reading and napping in the car 🙂 I went to this festival a couple of years ago, and had a good time then as… Continue reading MatSu Valley Fiber Festival!
I have 4 rows of garter stitch to do yet to finish this clue, but I think that’s pretty darn close to finished, so here’s how it’s going… Casapinka switched things up a little bit this week by adding some texture pattern rows between the garter sections. It definitely made the knitting more interesting, if… Continue reading Perfect Blend Shawl Clue 2
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?
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
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!
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
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
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
