During the last stages of finishing my Evenstar shawl, I’ve found myself having to answer this question: How do you finish knitting something for someone who has died? When I signed up for the Evenstar Knitalong by Sunflower Designs, I gave the project very little forethought. Lord of the Rings? Lace? Circular shawl? I’m in. … More Over
As of today, Jared Osborn and myself have been friends for ten years (when we met) committed for six years (minus ten days- DTR) in mutual affection for four years (when we started dating) in love for three years (when we got engaged) and married for two years. I want to say to my love, … More 2 years
So where were we? Oh yeah, you just turned a heel. Don’t you feel clever now? I always do. Anyway, now that you’ve got a nice heel, we need to connect it back up with the rest of your stitches to make a tube again. But the long sides of that heel flap are in … More The Flap Heel: Gussets Come and Go
Somebody may have requested at some point a tutorial on sock heels. Since I have, somewhat recently, inflicted some basic socky knowledge on two other of my dear, unfortunate friends, I thought it might be nice to provide some visual aids to the basic construction of a top-down, heel-flap style heel, which is what I … More The Flap Heel: Flap and Turn
Clearly, I am very easily entertained. My Basic Hoodie, as expected, is SO SIMPLE that knitting a plain sock might actually be more interesting. But a two-row lace pattern and raglan increases have been enough to spur me on through the entire yoke in about a week. It rather helps that my poor fingers are … More The Little Things
I have at least the standard amount of suck in my life, but every now and then I have to realize how blessed I really am. This is how I spent my afternoon: In the screened-in porch at Breezy Willow Farm, spending quality time with the blue Dorset fleece I dyed a few weeks ago … More How Cool Is My Life?!
After working for Seven Months to create a whole lot of very fine lace that is very consistent and well-behaved… I needed a break. I needed to spin something fat and pointless. Conveniently, about halfway through my lace plying, the latest copy of Spin Off showed up at work for our perusal, and peruse I … More Extra Cathartic
I sort of care about the World Cup. I care about it as an anthropologist – if a sport is fanatically adored by more or less the whole world except the US, I am inclined to be more interested. Also, my sis-in-law is The Soccer Fiend. (Except when we’re talking about the World Cup I … More How to Get Me to Care About Sports
There’s been a lot of plying going on around here lately. Both completely full bobbins of laceweight singles have become skeins of laceweight yarn, and I’m pretty happy with them. At least, I’m pretty happy with the first one – the one you saw on Sunday. The one I finished today after three episodes from … More Consistency
Spinning is immeasurably good for me. You may have heard that there are two kinds of knitters: process knitters and product knitters. They are fairly self-explanatory: Process knitters knit primarily for the joy of doing. They choose a project based on how fun it would be to do, they don’t care so much about the … More Plying Days
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