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
I finally have all five pieces of my purple sweater completed: Two sleeves (their stripiness matches so well! Is it not pleasing?!), one back, one large front, and one small front. However, I still have a rather serious problem: See the notable lack of neckline on the large front? I still haven’t fixed it. If … More Moment of Truth
Saturday, February 6th, 15:35 hours: Dear Blog, we finally got out of the house. Our “benchmark” was still there, if only barely. Time for a more reliable measurement. We don’t actually own a yardstick, so I got clever with my measuring tape, scotch tape, and my tube of blocking wires. The verdict: Rather speaks for … More Diary of a Snow Day, Part Deux
Friday, February 5th, 2009. 19:15 hours: It’s been a long, headachy day. We kept the shop open until 4:30, when the snow finally started sticking on the roads, and got a surprising number of customers up through 3 p.m. I suppose people are stocking up for the storm, just like at the grocery store, at which … More Diary of a Snow Day
As I knit on through my commission, nothing has been so encouraging as one little chapter in one of the Yarn Harlot‘s books. In Things I learned from Knitting: …Whether I wanted to or not, the “15th Thing” is, “It Takes a Great Deal of Pressure to Make a Diamond.” In other words, those times … More Blue Callus
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
Yesterday I got a special visit at work from the newest addition to my parents’ family: Kirby! Kirby is a living testament that if you make a promise to a 5-year-old that they will get something when they are 8… you should fully expect them to hold you to it. Mom told Bethany she could … More Kirby
In the tradition of the Yarn Harlot (PG-rated blog) and Mamacate (R-ish-rated-blog), I present to you a list of random things, randomly presented on a Wednesday. 1. On Monday night, we celebrated a Burns Supper! This is a celebration of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. Scots celebrate Burns night to remember their national poet, read … More Random Wednesdays
Yet another lesson learned, or if not learned, at least painfully reinforced. The lesson: read the pattern before you start knitting. That lovely top of a sock I showed you yesterday? It is exactly to gauge, with more or less perfect tension. It fits perfectly on a foot with an 8″ circumference, as the pattern … More On NOT frogging
I’ve been working at Cloverhill for about four months now. In some ways, I feel like I’ve always been here for ages. I’ve been doing everything from inventory to teaching classes, and now for the first time I get to make a shop sample. I’ve been itching for fair isle (a type of multi-color knitting), … More Sunrise
Osborn Fiber Studio 