The Rib is done! It was a blast to work on because: 1) I put one color in the right hand and knit it the overhand way and the other color in the left hand and use the continental way of knitting, and that makes the whole thing easy and fun. 2) I LOVE bright … More Details on the finished Corrugated Rib
Pre-note: 10 points for my mom for being started on her sweater… and for providing lovely content on days that I am snowed under with classes and other things! My shetland yarn is still in a sad box in a sad closet, waiting for an evening when I have a few free hours to just … More Status: Poke-buried
I decided last Sunday that I was ready to cast on for the Alice Starmore fair isle sweater that Rebecca and I are doing simultaneously. (Hers in different yarns and colors.) So I decided on how wide and long I wanted the sweater, worked out how many pattern repeats and thus how long would I … More TV Watching and a Corregated Rib
It is Wednesday, my brain is full of historical facts and my to-do list is as long as my arm, so that means it must be time for random wednesday, where I spew at you all the little thoughts I’ve been having instead of attempting to sound coherent or logical or even very grammatical. Go … More Random Wednesday
On Saturday, God woke up and decided it was fall. We woke up to find the air slightly dry and the radiators on. (We haven’t figured out how the thermostat is controlled, but it certainly isn’t controlled by us.) We looked outside and the trees on Market Street, which in summer looked as if they … More Who turned on the furnace already?
So I appear to have internet for the time being. The reason we did not have it before is not because the internet-makers weren’t sending it to our house, but because there are no phone jacks in our apartment. Jared found the magical little box in the basement where the internet comes in, and plugged … More Peachy Keen
After helping Rebecca and Jared move into their new place in Ambridge, I drove home knowing I could finally start the beautifully colored sweater I had worked so hard to prepare…..color design, laying out all the colors in a paint program graph, swatches, ball winding……but when I got home, I was too sad to start … More Design Decisions
We made it! I know you have been holding your breath for an update all this time; don’t worry, we haven’t died, we just don’t have the internet. (Despite what you might expect, being without internet is very unlike death.) And we’re unlikely to get internet before the end of next week, but we’ve figured … More Moving Up
Wednesday was my last day at the farm. Breezy Willow Farm, that is. It was the perfect day – cool and beautiful. Even feeling under the weather, it was so calming to put in a few hours of hard labor behind the carder. I will miss the beautiful location, the frenetic farm action, the smell … More Moving On
I have knit another baby blanket. It’s a very simple pattern that seems to reside in the group consciousness of knitters everywhere. You cast on a few and knit every row, increase every other row with a YO two stitches from each edge, then when half the yarn is gone, you decrease every other row … More This Blanket
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