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
Wise Child is the story of a girl in a Scottish island village. She’s living with her grandmother because her father is away at sea, and when her grandmother suddenly dies, she has no one to take her in, except Juniper, the village wise woman. Of course, Juniper is widely believed to be a witch,
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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
We drew names for Christmas this year (big family blow out – my out of state siblings and families are coming in, as well as my aunt and cousin from New Mexico). I did still want to make something for everyone, so I settled on jam. And since the Heavenly Fig Jam I made earlier
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The landscape quilt is done. It took a little longer than I originally planned because I had to re-jigger the hanging tube. I’d originally applied it a little lower than it ended up (above), and it just didn’t look right. So off that came, and up it went. The only problem now? We don’t actually
So, in other crafty news, I took out the landscape quilt again this weekend. Yesterday, I sewed all of the layers on. I also got the backing pinned on, made the binding, and got most of the binding sewed on, until I realized I had done the corners completely wrong. So I ripped those out,
I’m starting to sense a theme in at least some of Georgette Heyer’s books – irrepressible heroine (to the point of probably being too modern for the era) whirls into the life of an unmarried man (and his extended family), turns everyone’s life upside down, drives him thoroughly crazy, which pretty much forces him to
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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
I have been sadly remiss in my blog updates this month. Hurricane Sandy came through almost three weeks ago, and here are my pictures. We actually came through the storm well – there was some coastal flooding up here in Maine, but that was a given for certain locations the second they mentioned the words
