That was a lovely weekend! (I notice I use ‘lovely’ an awful lot. Noted, and I doubt I’ll change it any time soon. Lazy brain!) Skein Lane Knitting Retreat.
Knitting, knitters, Tomales Bay, not even cold! (I think I wore a sweater once, and took it off. Shawl, yes. Happy Grey Alpaca Shawl!) Nancy Bush, Sally [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Knitting and more knitting’
September 28, 2009
If I wait to add the photos…
I’ll never post a thing. Which is pretty much what I’ve been doing. Never not posting nothing at all.
I should tell a story, a sappy story, a tearjerker. (But I don’t have one of those.)
Light’s changing. I can’t count on light creeping in the window to remind me my alarm already went off. I hope [...]
July 31, 2009
Quick! Go do a Survey!
About you and knitting!
Our friend the Knitting Linguist is thinking about knitting and personal identity, and fun stuff like that. Do her a favor, and go do it here. I had a good time thinking about knitting and why I do it and how I started. Give her lots of words to analyze.
Peter Pan was [...]
July 24, 2009
Free Range Chickens Again
I don’t really believe it, but now ‘they’ say different. I will no longer be scrambling to finish these dratted forms up this weekend! But I must, must, must continue working on them, because they have to go away sometime. Too bad the motivation is so much less.
What is the history of the phrase ”chickens coming [...]
July 16, 2009
Happy Gray Alpaca Shawl
Happy kid in shawl.
Happy me in shawl.
Unblocked.
Blocking, with my new blocking/dressing wires.
I wear it a lot. I might have mentioned I wish it was bigger, just one skein more! Ah well. The Beginner’s Triangle, from A Gathering of Lace, in DK alpaca from West Valley Alpacas. Such drape! Such a [...]
June 11, 2009
Urg, with a nice shade of grey
Moan, moan, complain, groan, moan.
I’ve had a cold. Feeling better, but I’m working, so grumble… Cough.
On the good side, I had a lovely grey alpaca shawl to curl up under. Might be why I wish it was bigger. And now it needs to hang out in the sun for a while to be de-virused. Or [...]
May 29, 2009
Chart or Knit?
No, not the eternal debate of charts v written out instructions. The other eternal debate – should I work or can I knit? We all know the correct answer, even if we don’t live the correct way. Interpret at will.
I’m so close to finishing my grey alpaca shawl! My son encouraged me last night (at [...]
May 20, 2009
Bits of Knitting
I owe you photos of knitting projects. I think I’ve mentioned a couple of them already.
Like these Easy Mitts for my brother’s girlfriend. Why, no! They’re not quite done yet! Such a surprise.
Once again, I adore the yarn I’m using for a pair of mitts. I really, really, really want enough for a sweater. [...]
May 18, 2009
One of those ideas
My niece has/had her first communion on the 16th. When my concuna called about a week and a half before to tell me about the party, I had that idea. You know, the one about a lace shawl for a special occasion. She’s small. It could be done in a thicker yarn. Such a great [...]
May 12, 2009
Spit is best in the right place
I used a spit splice for the first time last night. I’m working with this lovely alpaca yarn, and thought it would be the perfect opportunity and place for a spit splice. I very carefully overlapped about 5 inches of yarn and used lots of spit and friction. I continued knitting, satisfied [...]
