Knitting! Plus some gardening, cocktails, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
Cast of CharactersMe: that is IM: 6’4″ of curly-headed manlinessRebecca: Proprietress of LYSLatBTs: Ladies at the Big Table (four of them) SettingA dark and stormy lunch hour at the LYS Scene 1: Me and M enter LYS.Rebecca: Hi again! How are you? Me: Great. I’m …
Lately, I have been in a sweater slump, so much so that I read with alarm Sheepish Annie’s post in which she mentions the dreaded “I Started a Blog and Now I Can’t Seem to Knit Sweaters Anymore” Curse. All my sweater issues can be …
Bad light pink swatch. Good fuschia swatch. In good news/bad news situations, I try to get the bad news out of the way first. That way, after I survive the bad news, I have the good to brighten me up. So I’ll start with the …
I’ve worn the Landscape Shawl a couple of times now, even though we are having unseasonably warm weather, and I am completely hooked on the whole shawl gestalt. They are so handy and pretty! Last Friday dawned a sunny day, so I cajoled M into …
I finally successfully “Kitchenered” the toe of a sock (you thought I was going to talk about the Landscape shawl–that’s waiting for a nice daylight photo-op). I have grafted the toes before, but have usually ended up with some loop I can’t do anything with …
It’s not blocked yet (tomorrow), or the few ends woven in, but the Landscape Shawl is bound off!!! 47,600 stitches. Bound off! Thanks to everyone who left such encouraging comments concerning this shawl! I hope to coerce M in to helping with a photo shoot …