Please *read* pattern to avoid making idiot mistakes.

I started knitting Glynis for the second time out of more promising yarn with smaller needles on Sunday. It seemed like things were going well and the yarn was working out this time around.
After a repeat or two, I noticed that the pattern wasn’t quite lining up as I expected.
No matter, I thought. Cookie knows [...]

Kai-Mei

Kai-Mei was a joy to knit!

Despite slogging through 6.5″ of 3×3 ribbing, the pattern was fantastic. The creative gusset construction and addictive lace pattern really kept things moving.

The yarn may be my favorite sock yarn yet. It felt good to knit and it feels good on my feet. I’ll definitely be trying this one out [...]

Bets On!

Last night, as he often does, Sweetie stopped by the shop to visit with us while we were at work. He noticed the project my coworker, Sandy, was working on and things took off from there.
Sweetie: What are you knitting?
Sandy: A sock blankie.
Sweetie: For a cat?
Sandy: No, for a human-size bed.
Sweetie: Wait, wait…are all the [...]

At a Loss

Now that I’m out of school for a few months, I’m at a bit of a loss as to what to do with myself. It’s not that I don’t have anything to do, but classes provide a certain rhythm. My sporadic work schedule just doesn’t have the same stability.
I’ve decided to content myself with taking [...]

Seven

I finally poked my head up from Sock Innovation to finish off the ‘Seven Things’ baby cardigan class sample.
You’re probably wondering what in the world those buttons are. Here’s a close up:
At first I was calling these gnome buttons, because that’s what they look like to me. However, I thought about the ’seven’ theme of [...]

A Celebratory Weekend

This weekend was one big celebration and I’m exhausted from it!
I had a final exam at the last possible time: 4-5:55 pm on Friday. I think it went well. After I handed in my exam, my professor returned my paper about solving knitting problems using old and new media forms (essentially a college essay about [...]

Brave New World

“O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beautious mankind is!
O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!”
~The Tempest V.i
You know that odd feeling you get when you’re meeting someone for the first time that you know you will become very close to in the future? You know nothing about this person yet but the [...]

Yarn Barf

I tried to knit Glynis and it ended up like this:The colors were pooling in an unattractive, vertical manner that I couldn’t tolerate. I ripped out the sock after the first pattern repeat and the yarn will reappear as Wanida and I’ll try another stash yarn for Glynis.
I’m not too upset about ripping out a [...]

Finding

Every once in a while I feel like I’ve found a little bit of my true self. It’s just a glimmer, maybe a realization that I genuinely enjoy something and am not just following the crowd. It feels good to have this little kernel of truth, but it also leads to further examination. I begin [...]