Started a measly three months ago (snark) I happily bound off for these socks last night. Pattern: Toe Up Slip Stitch Heel by Wendy Johnson (PDF link) Yarn: Jo-Ann Sensations Soles & More Needles: 1-24″ Knit Picks US #1 (2.25 mm), magic looped Mods: to accommodate my shapely calves, I added calf sts along the […]
Goal Check in – February
It’s mid-February and time for a check in on my goals. Every year I post goals and then I…don’t talk about them. I’m changing that this year. I blogged about my goals in early January. Here’s a recap and where I’m at now. Continue with weight loss. I increased last year’s goal to 15 pounds […]
Cowling Around
I spent a lot of time this past week looking for THE pattern for one of my summer yarns. I finally decided last night to make up a pattern myself. I’m using the hempathy and I’m making a top down raglan with a drapey cowl in the front. I’ll be able to wear it to […]
Cold weather knitting, warm weather dreaming
The mittens are moving along after some drama on Monday. After knitting three repeats I admitted the cables were pulling in too much.Take a look. Those cables span one half of the stitches. They should cover the whole front of the mitten. I ripped back to the ribbing and gave 8 more stitches to the […]
Yep, another new project
I started a new pair of mittens. I still have a hankering for some more cables so these will have a swirl of cables going up the front. I used the same stitch counts as I did for my Ambroso mittens since they fit well. You can see the start of the thumb gusset and […]
Nuvem and a First Look at Spring
I CO for my Nuvem last Saturday. I knit on it during my commute all week and wasn’t sure about it. I had a hard time keeping everything together on the train – a combo of fine yarn and stitch markers – and was considering frogging it. It was so bad that I chose not […]