Announcing…the worst knitting disaster ever. At least in my knitting life. I mean, I’ve accidentally felted things ever so slightly enough for them to no longer to fit. But that was my fault. This wasn’t. For the record, I used the yarn specified in the pattern. The garment looked fitted in the magazine, so I […]
Category Archive for 'Knitting'
What I Really Wanted to Say…
Posted in Homemaking, Knitting on Apr 30th, 2008
So these are my new kitchen curtains. The ones they replaced were hand knit by me to a tune of about 40 hours per valence, if I remember correctly. Since we’re putting the house on the market and the window coverings are typically sold with the house, I wanted to make something else to put […]
Eye Candy Sunday
Posted in Joey, Knitting, Life at Our House, Sewing on Apr 13th, 2008
A few of my favorite recent photos… Some fabric I treated myself to yesterday. I love things that are accented in stripes. Mmmm…. Some happy knitting. I started this yesterday morning and had to put it on hold this morning so I could get an in-progress picture before I finished it. [This one is for […]
Can you see it now?
Posted in Knitting on Apr 11th, 2008
It’s the Baby Surprise by Elizabeth Zimmermann…a few rows shy of being finished. I am actually contemplating doing the little bit of seaming before I’m finished knitting so I can finish all of the edges in one fell swoop. That would mean that I would miss out on handing the knitted object to people and […]
What have I been doing with my time lately? I have been organizing all of my knitting stuff over at Ravelry. For those of you who aren’t knitters, Ravelry is this new site still in beta where you can catalog projects you’ve knit and are knitting as well as your yarn stash and things you […]
The Little Bear That Could
Posted in Knitting on Mar 25th, 2008
Introducing one of my latest finished knitting projects: the Baby Bobbi Bear. He was initially intended to be a Christmas present for Joey, but now he is slated to be sent to Germany as a new baby gift for my dear friend Mindy. It’s not that I don’t like him. It’s that he’s made out […]