OMG – so much to do! So I have this grand plan for 2017, which I shared in an earlier post. But then things keep coming up. Partly because I am easily distracted, and partly because certain types of peer pressure actually work on me. Also because I am excellent at creating nonsensical justifications for… Continue reading In Over My Head
Today I finished the last of my biggish projects from this year – a Waiting for Rain shawl. It is blocking right now, and there will be pictures a little later today or tomorrow. 2016 saw a lot of projects started and finished, and a few interesting new knitting endeavors. I tried socks for the… Continue reading 2016 Wrap Up
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa and/or Happy Solstice as appropriate! Best Wishes to all for a wonderful holiday season!
It’s been a long pause since the last post yet again. I have actually been knitting a lot, and also had some real life busyness going on as well. However, this is the first day of a nice, week-and-a-bit long staycation, so posting frequency should improve a bit. What am I going to do with… Continue reading Again with the long pause
So a whirlwind week has gone by, but not a lot of knitting news. I am away from home on a work trip – one thing that is great about work trips is that there is often plenty of time to get some knitting done in the evenings. Most of the places I go for work… Continue reading Travel Projects
Things are finally getting done! Specifically, my long personal nightmare of a skirt is finally finished! I’m dramatizing a little bit here, mostly for comic effect, but it seriously felt like I was knitting this darn thing for at least a year. Now, when I check my project page on Ravelry, it turns out… Continue reading Finally!
That’s what this past week felt like. Miles and miles of plain stockinette, as far as the eye can see. The two projects I have going right now were each chosen when I was feeling like I really was not up to much complexity in my life. But right now, they are both so very,… Continue reading Keep Knitting and Knitting and Knitting…
So one of my knit projects right now is a skirt. To get ready for this project, I bought a pattern – for the Simple Straight Skirt, by Churchmouse Yarns and Teas – which I proceeded to then not really follow. I also bought and read a book entirely on the topic of knitting various… Continue reading Skirting the Issue
I just spent the week in Barrow AK for work, and hoped to report on the state of knitting there. Sadly, there’s not much knitting going on that an outsider could see. The local superstore, an Alaska Commercial Company, has a very small section of some acrylic and cotton yarns, and a small selection of… Continue reading New in the News!
Quite A Yarn 