I’m done with the first Marilinda sock. I’d forgotten how much I love Cookie A’s patterns. They’re just so interesting! The pattern on this one had to split in a really neat way to get around the heel and onto the foot. Just so much fun. I need to make more of her socks. In […]

Here’s the final dispensation of the Knit Picks Stroll Tweed Down Heather yarn – a Cable Baby hat, some Better than Booties socks, and a hexipuff. (This isn’t the only one – I had a few from the last time I thought I was done with this yarn.) I still have plans for casting on

So we were supposed to go to VT this weekend, but one very sick BF kept us home instead. (Fortunately, if you can call it that, we had a fair inkling of where things were headed on Wednesday night, so I was able to run to the store to stock up on food for the

Pattern: Traveling Stitch Legwarmers by Lisa R. MyersYarn: Knitpicks Stroll Tweed in the Down Heather colorwayNeedles: Size 3 DPNs After taking a summer long break between legs, the Traveling Stitch Legwarmers are done. I liked this pattern – it’s got some relatively complicated cables, but with enough repetition that you can get used to the

Pattern: Beyond Puerperium by Kelly van NiekerkYarn: Malabrigo Sock in the Stonechat colorwayNeedles: Size 2.5 and 4 circs and DPNs Here’s the cardigan for BF’s cousin’s impending little boy. We might be seeing them over Thanksgiving weekend, or if not, this is being shipped to her mother for her shower on 12/3. It’s a nice little

This is the Beyond Puerperium pattern, by Kelly van Niekerk. I’m using Malabrigo Sock Yarn in the Stonechat colorway. This is going to be for BF’s cousin K’s baby boy, due in January, though the shower is in December, so that’s the deadline (with a little buffer room to get it mailed over to NY).

Pattern: Vivid by tincanknitsYarn: Valley Yarns Huntington in the Harvest Orange, Bluestone, Mustard, Red, Blue and Sunset colorwaysNeedles: Size 5 DPNs My gift for baby B (due in about a month) is done! I really enjoyed this pattern – working in squares ending up being the perfect thing for this summer, since it was so

I’m on the last day of a three day blocking extravaganza for the Vivid blanket.   While it is to open up the pattern, it’s also to make the squares a bit bigger.   Unblocked, I would have liked to have added one more square per color, but I did not have enough yarn to

The Vivid blanket progresses. I’d gotten to my original goal – four squares for each of the six colors – on Friday night. In laying them out today, I’m going to try and go for one more square in each color (which I’m fairly sure I have enough for, but I’ll know as soon as

I realized I haven’t posted anything about any knitting for a while, and there is a good reason for that.    It’s been hot (this is going to become a recurring theme in the next couple of posts.)    So the blanket I’ve been working on is probably the best possible project to be working