I’ve got two separate projects going right now. The first is from this set of Christmas Ornaments, by MillaMia Sweden. They’re supposed to be for sport weight yarn, but I’m using them to wear down some of my larger scraps of fingering weight. (Which fortunately, are vaguely Christmas colored.) […]
Pattern: Quest for a Man by Laura NelkinYarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Tweed in the Prussian Heather colorwayNeedles: Size 7 DPNs and Size 6 and 7 circs I knit this hat twice. The whole point was that the original hat I made for my brother was too big. I’ve since made
I’d never given much thought to Shakespeare in translation – I mean, the thing about his work is his amazing use of the English language. You find lists of words that he pioneered in his work that we’re still using today. Heck, we’ve basically moved on from that particular form of
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Pattern: Leap! by Brooke RamosYarn: Knit Picks Stroll in the Dusk, Pine, and Merlot Heather colorways, and Knit Picks Palette in the Silver colorwayNeedles: Size 1.5 DPNs So these are my first pair of mitts with actual fingers – and I’ll admit, if I was doing these again, I’d make the fingers longer.
I was recently bemoaning the lack of photos on my blog – January is entirely books and knitting up until now. But, it is is winter in New England. It’s not that I don’t go anywhere in the winter – it’s usually just things more like last weekend, where we went down
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As a bit of a contrast to the Leap! mitts, I’ve also cast on yet another Quest men’s hat. I’d made one in a size large for my younger brother ages ago, but it was really too big, so he asked if he could get a smaller one. I like this pattern, and
Here’s another technical re-read, from back in my high school days. It’s the story of Merlin, from childhood, to when he claims the baby Arthur from Uther Pendragon. In this series, Merlin is the son of the bard Taliesin and the Princess Charis of Atlantis, daughter of the Fisher King. He
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The next thing I cast on is firmly in the use up yarn! category. These are Leap! mitts, by Brooke Ramos. I’ve got three different types of KnitPicks Stroll, and a KnitPicks Palette in there. They all had fairly large amounts left, so I’m hoping to get them down to more
Pattern: Checkerboard Gansey Socks by Lisa KayYarn: Anzula Cloud in the Dusty Rose ColorwayNeedles: Size 2 DPNs You know, I don’t want to say anything bad about this pattern, because it’s really fine, but it really does confirm that I prefer top down socks to toe up socks. I don’t like the cast
Pattern: Brezel by Svetlana VolkovaYarn: Classic Elite Alpaca Lana D’Oro in the Ruby colorwayNeedles: Size 7 circs and DPNs We’ve started a bit of a tradition when the BF and I go to a yarn store together – he looks for yarn he likes so I can make him something. (So far, it’s been
