28 Aug
I can’t stop with the Monkey socks. I seriously cannot. They keep my attention so well but are totally mindless. I can knit them in the dark and with my eyes closed. Love the Monkeys.
There is proof.
Lorna’s Laces Shepherd sock in colorway Childsplay. It ended up being a great pattern for this particular yarn since [...]
27 Aug
Everytime I think about my favorite cast on learned from stitches, I say it in my head in a very “teenage mutant ninja turtles” way.
Monday night I started another sweater for J. I had bought the yarn some time ago to experiment with some designing, but soon found out that what he wanted to design [...]
27 Aug
She has struck again! She is quite amazing as she struck 3 people at once this time. That is a lot of wollmeise fey she has to be able to gift skeins to 3 different people. I do so love her! Her generosity is quite amazing. I think it is wonderful that she wants to [...]
26 Aug
Yes, it has been over for a couple days now, but I didn’t have the chance to post about it. I did though, want to post a wrap up featuring the beautiful work of my dear teammates, since you have already seen the February Lady Sweater of my own.
Let’s start with Phyllis, who completed a [...]
25 Aug
So this was my first annual girls weekend, aka stitches midwest, with my dear friends Sarah, Corrie, and Kathy. Stitches took place outside of Chicago at the Schaumburg convention center. I drove out on Friday, arriving around noon. And here I will attempt to give you a weekend recap, and try not [...]
25 Aug
There WILL be a large update on the blog tonight including pictures from stitches. Soon.
21 Aug
I sewed. Yep, I sewed my swatch for my steeking class. I stressed over it, but took my mothers advice of using tissue paper over the stitches. After an initial tension issue, I managed to sew it just fine with very pleasingly straight lines. So it leaves me a bit of tissue paper on the [...]
19 Aug
My ravelympics project, February Lady Sweater, is done. I finally sewed the buttons on last evening and then had favorite coworker take pictures today.
I modified this pattern heavily so I should probably document what I did. I knit 10 rows of garter stitch and then did the rest of the top in stockinette. [...]
19 Aug
Something very strange happened last night. A project got finished and I had no idea I was that close to the end. My Handspun from the Hush Hush Handspun Hootinany swap which I knit into a montego bay scarf just finished itself. It was a beautiful thing! I am left wondering exactly how that happened!
When [...]
18 Aug
Wait, what day is it??? Yeah, thats how I feel. Day 11, that’s right.
We’ve had some team updates from over the weekend that I wanted to get posted. Everyone is moving right along!
Ummeyusuf has finished a beautiful baby surprise jacket. She is also well into a knit and crochet cardigan for her daughter. From what [...]
18 Aug
(Shells: I thought this was too good a stumble not to post, since we have all been there! Plus, she did such an awesome write up and photo documentation, it would be a waste if it wasn’t blogged.)
From Sav:
I’ve been a bit behind on updates and that happened for a reason. I made a ridiculously [...]
15 Aug
I don’t want to knit. I don’t want to talk about knitting. I am tired of the sweater and I am too much of a project swinger to practice project monogamy. I am not even knitting right now. I am cleaning house and rearranging furniture instead. Yeah, I know, that [...]
14 Aug
Precious little has been knit on my sweater. This is due to a case of travel weariness that was overwhelming yesterday. I could do little more than sit on the couch and veg. So I thought I would post some sock progress instead, though these are most likely socks that you don’t know about yet! [...]
13 Aug
I am home safe and sound now. Headed back to work this morning. I woke up at 4:30 AM due to the time change, and even though it is only an hour early, I really wanted to nip that in the bud. So I had to force myself to go back to sleep. That has [...]
11 Aug
I knit less yesterday and enjoyed my time with family more. I learned to play pinochle and played a rockin’ game of that last night. I have started the lace section though. I will be working on my mandala shawl in the car ride to my parents today, so I do not anticipate much progress [...]
10 Aug
Here I am knitting my beach fog yarn on the beach…doesn’t that look relaxing?
10 Aug
This is posted a bit late, I know. Still I wanted to give a day 2 update.
Ummeyusuf is coming right along on her first baby dressage project. She does her colorwork very quickly. Her project can be seen here.
Phy is coming right along with her shawl, she tells us it now would take 2 pieces [...]
9 Aug
From Phyllis on shawl relay
Forest canopy shawl pattern.
Lorna’s Laces Shepard Sport Multi colorway Franklin’s Panopticon.
Nice job team!
9 Aug
Sock putt from Savasana.
Yarn: Duet sock skinny, colorway Cherry Melon.
Sav wanted to get to the variegated yarn before she finished up for the evening, and indeed she did!
9 Aug
I woke up this morning early, eager to take pictures of the first day of progress on my ravelympics sweater. It went with me just about everywhere yesterday and I worked on it at every spare moment. I think I got a good amount done for day one. It looks a little small but I [...]
8 Aug
My mandala shawl has really stalled out over the past couple of weeks. Work has been too busy for me to have the desire for intense lace knitting in the evening. I brought it on vacation simply to make sure I never ran out of knitting projects, even though I had intended to work on [...]
6 Aug
(and a finished object)
The socks I knit for Nick were completed before the plane even took off from our city. This is handspun from blue moon fiber arts colorway ravenscroft. I still have 833 yards left, and I am not sure if I will keep it for a shawl or put it on etsy. It [...]
6 Aug
I have not been able to blog for a few days now, as I have not had consistent internet access. But for the rest of this trip I will have it. Time? Maybe not, but I will have a decent connection.
I want to show you what I get to see on my vacation, so I [...]
3 Aug
I was holding off choosing buttons for the ravelympics because I knew I would want to dive into my moms button stash. My great aunt worked in a dress factory where they were allowed to sweep up the buttons at the end of their shift and keep them should they choose to do so. Consequently, [...]
