I changed my mind on the yarn I’m using for Arwen. The Aurora 8 was stuck in customs so I went down to Rosie’s yesterday where Carol helped me pick out a great replacement — Queensland Collection Kathmandu Aran. Replacement is really the wrong word, because I’m *much* happier with this yarn than my original […]
Eye Candy Friday: Fall Garden
Tubular Bind-Off
Quite a while ago I promised you guys a pictorial of the tubular bind off. It took 8 months, but here it is.
My Knitting Life List
I always think about things in terms of goals (do more of such-and-such, spend less money on this-or-that). I even do it with my knitting (just look at all my goals posts). While visiting with Christy this weekend, Michelle mentioned all the life lists she’s been reading lately. So it got me to thinking, what […]
That’s What I’m Talkin About
the old sock in the diagonal rib with a few extra sts. I think there were 60 sts in the sock ( the stitch pattern made for a smaller sock). The pooling was just about as much as I could handle. But this? This is behaving like Koigu, with its short color changes. I’m not […]
Life’s Too Short
Just like I promised, I started knitting a pair of socks with the fest yarn. It’s STR in Rocktober. I always obsess over a pattern when I’m using variegated. I tried several and then remembered the Diagonal Rib socks on the Interweave Subscriber-only section. I gave it a whirl and it looked good. I’ve been […]