Making reasonable progress on the Apple Swizzle hat. Not as much as I would like, but there have been distractions. All yarny ones, so it’s fine, but it does slow things down a little. Anyway! Dip stitches are not hard at all, as it turns out. It’s another one of those things that you have… Continue reading Dipping for Stitches
This Saturday, June 5, is World Wide Knit in Public Day! All over, the world, knitter and other fiber crafters are making a point of knitting in public places. Some knitting groups or yarn shops or other interested parties are holding events, some of them quite elaborate. Others are just staging what winds up sounding… Continue reading WWKIP Day!
I finished the beaded version of new shawl section 1 of earlier post fame, in the originally intended color yarn 🙂 It’s pretty sparkly in the light, which I’m having trouble capturing. I’m juggling three projects now instead of just two, so it’s all moving a bit slower. However, the hat is a pretty small… Continue reading Now With Beads On!
I had a little knitting time today – not as much as I would have liked. But anyway, I got a start on my Apple Swizzle hat. Not to the exciting part yet, but ready to get to it next time I work on it!
So Forest Weave is coming along, shawl design is moving too – everything progressing nicely, aaaaand… Squirrel! It’s the start of a new month, so it’s time for a new Boost Your Knitting pattern! This is going to be another nifty one – dip stitches! This is where you pull extra loops of yarn up… Continue reading Squirrel!
I got a lot of knitting time in this weekend, in between chores and errands and just plain goofing off. Am about 3/4 done with the front of my Forest Weave. Just part of a pattern repeat to finish, then binding off and on to the back! It will open out quite a bit when… Continue reading Progress Report
Version 1 of my shawl design is done. Whew! It’s not DONE done, but close. I have been working on this design for a while, picking out stitch patterns for the different bands I had in mind, but hadn’t put them together. Before I tried this with good yarn, I wanted to do one quick… Continue reading Shawl Design v1 is Done!
A recent visit to our fabulous local used bookstore (Title Wave) netted me a copy of a book I have been wondering about but had never looked at. This is Knitting Nature by Norah Gaughan. It is not a new book by any means, having been published in 2006. It consists of 39 patterns designed… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Knitting Nature
I wrote a couple days ago about a shipboard murder mystery we were watching on Netflix called High Seas. We were about halfway through the series at that point. Well, we finished binge-watching the rest of the series Monday afternoon – it was pretty good! I won’t say spectacular, because there were bits that were… Continue reading High Seas and Other Wacky Entertainment
Quite A Yarn 