Anything over and done gets its day in the sun.
Now that my commission is safely in the hands of its new owner, I feel like I can tell you what it is: Leg Warmers! Made with six different colors of Berroco’s Ultra Alpaca, these babies are 19 glorious inches of K1-P1 rib that will hug the leg, slouch, or pretty much do whatever you … More On Ends
Mondays are my day off. That should make today a day of relaxation and general cheerfulness. Unfortunately this has been dampened somewhat by a rather burdensome commission I decided to take on, for which I drastically underestimated the time commitment (or grossly overestimated my knitting speed). I’m not going to post pictures of it here; … More Cheering Up
A lot of people are intimidated about knitting. If you’re reading this and you know me, you might be one of the many people who has said things to me like along the lines of, “Wow, you are so talented; I could never do that.” I realize this is meant as a compliment, but it … More Intimidation
You may think that I dutifully wrote those posts for you every day after Christmas. I hate to break it to you, my ducklings, but I stayed up until early on boxing day scheduling them dutifully to post while we galavanted away in St. Louis. Why do I break your hearts with this news of … More Hats Galore!
I knitted for my Chris Kindle (code for Secret Santa): A pretty, green, merino-silk cowl. Sorry I caught you with the flash. My only excuse is that this picture was taken around 12:05 on Christmas morning, after the late service. Pattern: Kate’s Feather-and-Fan cowl (come to Cloverhill and buy some yarn and you can get … More On the Eleventh Day of Christmas
I knitted for my spouse: An Armando hat (ravelry link) in Malabrigo worsted! Jared says: “Didn’t I also look stoned in the picture you took of me wearing the hat you made me last year?” I don’t know; let’s find out. Hmmm. Things I learned from this project: 1. Slip stitch patterns, and slip-stitch-like patterns, … More On the tenth Day of Christmas
I knitted for my friend, A cashmere chemo cap of glory. It’s hard to really think of it as fair to make a gift like this – I feel like I’ve gotten all the fun in getting to touch the yarn all the time when I knitted it. But Becky loved it, she is totally … More On the Ninth Day of Christmas
I knitted for my sis: A wee baby dog whose whole body is a head! Figured that could only be the next step from her current obsession, Littlest Pet Shop, where 95% of all animals’ body mass is head. Why not go the rest of the way? Pattern: Improvised, but shamelessly ripped off Susan Morishita’s … More On the Eighth Day of Christmas
I knitted for my friend, A scarf so manly, it’s not even soft. (Again, forethought in the face of great, discontinued yarn, found while on vacation. Really not a skill I’ve acquired.) This scarf and I came perilously close to major, major tragedy. I was entranced by the pattern, Building Block scarves out of this … More On the Sixth Day of Christmas
I knitted for my friends, Earflap hats in Tigers colors! I am the baseball Uruk-Hai. My pastor’s family (wife and twin teenage boys) like the Tigers a LOT. Enough that when a shipment of Austermann Murano came into the shop, and one ball was white, blue, and yellow, I figured that they’d probably wear their … More On the Fifth Day of Christmas
Osborn Fiber Studio 