Adventures with sticks and string.
I finished my Cromarty last night. Cat included for scale. Every seam sewn, every end woven in. As you can see, I added a band to the bottom of the sweater as well as to the bottom of the sleeves. I used the two small side cables together on this band. So instead of doing [...]
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Happy New Year! What better way to welcome a new year than with a lovely new book? This is Sweet Shawlettes by Jean Moss, a collection of 25 patterns for shawlettes, cowls, and other related types of knits. I received a review copy of this book a couple of weeks ago and pronounce it delightful! [...]
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The first sleeve of Cromarty is nearly done. Well, it’s a bit further along than that photo. I am, however, making it shorter than directed in the pattern. This is because I plan to add a sewn-on cuff to match the sewn-on border I am planning for the bottom of the sweater. After I finish [...]
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It has been dark and rainy all day. The lighting is weird, buthere is a Cromarty photo taken without flash: That’s the front. I’ve started a sleeve. We’ve had a lovely Christmas here. Lucy got a fun toy from her Daddy. However, the lure of the wrapping paper proved too much for her.
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Lucy is waiting for Santa. She plans to remain vigilant. But it’s too much excitement for one little kitty. Happy Holidays!
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Today was my last day of work until January 3, 2012 (although there are a couple of things I’ll have to deal with remotely from home next week). But that is not the fabulous to which I refer in the title. It’s this: This is Michael Pearson’s Traditional Knitting by (not surprisingly) Michael Pearson. It [...]
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Here are two different yarns I have purchased to potentially be used for knitting non-wool ganseys: The yarn on the left is Luscious by Kollage. It is a fingering weight blend of 63% cotton and 37% nylon. It looks to me like a heavy fingering weight. The suggested gauge is 6 to 8 stitches to [...]
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I have happily recovered from my fatigue of last week, which was due not to illness nor holiday preparations, but a Big Thing at work that had to go off smoothly. It did, happily, and I was able to collapse in a pile on Thursday evening. When I was on my way home on Thursday [...]
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