Knitting and occasional cooking and gardening adventures!
Sep 30 2007
I feel like I haven’t been knitting a whole lot, but when I stopped to look at the projects I’ve been working on most, I’m surprised to see how far along I am. Yesterday I started The Bag from No Sheep For You. CraftyMands gave me 4 skeins of Hempathy for my birthday (which [...]
Sep 27 2007
I’ve been reading different fourms on Ravel-crack… er, I mean Ravelry about blogs, knit-blogging, and knitting blogs people read and the reasons why they read those particular blogs over others. A few people have said they like a certain blog because it’s not just knitting content all the time and you get to know the [...]
Sep 26 2007
I think I just needed to finish something instead of ripping it out or feeling like I’ll never be done. Problem solved!
Pattern: FoliageStarted: Sept. 25, 2007Completed: Sept. 26, 2007Yarn: Nashua Handknits Creative Focus SuperwashNeedles: US 7 bamboo 16" circular and DPN’s for body of hat, US 4 bamboo 16" circular for ribbingNotes: This was a [...]
Sep 21 2007
It’s just a week of frogging here! As I was knitting my Fall Socks today, I was really thinking they were kind of small. I tried them on and sure enough, they are just too tight. I should have kept with the 64 stitches I started with and not gone down to 58. I had [...]
Sep 21 2007
As it turns out, I was living in Knitter’s Denial about the bag I was knitting. I should have figured it out the first time I made the attempt and it was very floppy, but NO. I did what a knitter in denial does - I went down a few needle sizes and kept on [...]
