With the year winding down, it occurred to me that if I really want to include the Palimpsest shawl in my 2012 projects (I did finish it in August), I really should block it before the end of the year, so that happened yesterday. Since I don’t have enough blocking mats, I ended up doing […]

It’s come to my attention that my niece has been growing a bit more than I had initially given her allowance for when I made her Christmas gift.    Fortunately, I have time to remedy that, so here’s an Owlet Sweater, part deux, in the 18-25 month size.    This time, it’s in Quince and Company Lark,

Pattern: cable baby by Pamela W. AllenYarn: Tess’ Designer Yarns Peruvian Sock YarnNeedles: Size 3 DPNS In casting on the Annis Shawl, since it has so many stitches, and during the lace portion I can only hack one pattern repeat a work night, I decided to find another sock yarn using up pattern to do

I decided cast on something entirely selfish, since I’ve been doing Christmas knitting so many projects in a row.   This is the Annis Shawl, using Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud, in the Tidepool Heather colorway – quite possibly my actual favorite color (it marries both blue and green!). So far, so good, even though it does involve

Pattern: Fallberry mitts by Anne HansenYarn: Three Irish Girls Beckon Merino in the Silver Bay ColorwayNeedles: Size 2.5 DPNs I’m definitely on a mitt roll – these are going to be for my SIL S, whose birthday is the day after Christmas. I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed this yarn – it’s a little bit

Pattern:  Oddity Mitts by Mia HeikkinenYarn: Pine Woods Farm Sock in the Nor’easter Blues colorwayNeedles: Size 2.5 DPNs In a bid to use up the Pine Woods Farm yarn, and because I know I can use them for a Christmas gift, I made pair #3 of mitts from this skein.    And, I actually had enough

Pattern: Loria Mitts by Ashley KnowlesYarn: Pine Woods Yarn Sock in the Nor’easter Blue colorwayNeedles: Size 3 DPNs The Loria Mitts are done.    This is a nice pattern – a little on the more complicated side (because of the cables), but certainly nothing difficult.   I think the hardest part was figuring out where to put

And, last but not least, in the grand catch up, I’ve cast on some Loria Mitts, using Pinewoods Sock yarn in the Nor’Easter Blue colorway. I have actually had these going long enough that I had a size medium left mitt done all the way up to just before the bind off, decided it was

Pattern: Portlandia Cloche by Emily JohnsonYarn: Colinette Jitterbug in the Copperbeach colorwayNeedles: Size 3 DPNs I’ve had an eye out for patterns to use up some of my larger batches of sock yarn, and choose this hat as one.    It’s a nice little pattern, not to difficult, but still interesting, and since it’s a

Pattern: Reversible Cables Baby to Toddler Hat by Gretchen ChanYarn: Cascade 220 SuperwashNeedles: Size 8 Circs and DPNs Ok, I think I’m safely set for L’s Christmas presents this year.   Sadly, I didn’t use up all of the yarn, so I will have to come up with something else to finish off the last of