Well, it wasn’t Rhinebeck…

The rest of the knit-blogosphere may be writing about their woolie adventures at Rhinebeck, but I’m here to tell you about the amazing time that I had at the Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric!
Really.
It was fun.
You don’t believe me, do you?
Look at it like this: Rhinebeck, NY is the UMTC campus, the fiber-celebrities are prominent rhetoric [...]

Hemlock Ring

The Hemlock Ring blanket for my chilly new office has been done for a couple weeks now. D’you wanna see?
Isn’t she lovely? I chose the color by matching it with the two colors of chairs that we have in our office of eight–gray and electric blue. This way if I change to a different desk [...]

Happy Socktober!

I am not, strictly speaking, participating in Socktoberfest. However, I do plan on casting on for the Through the Loops Socktoberfest Mystery Sock as soon as I can get my yarn into a ball.
Since I needed to be able to cast on quickly and since the pattern is a mystery, I actually had Sweetie pick [...]

It’s raining here

In case you can’t see right through me, the photo above is there because I can’t take a decent progress shot of my knitting. And because the berries were so pretty that I actually went back out into the rain to photograph them.
I absolutely love knitting my Nordique Swing Cardigan! When I’m at my desk [...]

The Optimistic Knitter

It’s starting to feel like fall, and you know what that means…

…time for fall knitting!
Now that just about all the fall knitting magazines seem to be out, I’ve managed to compile my master fall knitting queue. I’m warning you now, there are a lot of sweaters! That’s not because I’m completely insane, but because my [...]

Aeolian Shawlette

I’ve finally blocked my Aeolian shawlette! I’ve had this one off the needles for quite a while now, but I didn’t have either the time during daylight or the free floor space to block it until last weekend.
I thought I would save this garment for dressier occasions, but I ended up wearing it all day [...]

Heima

“Heima means at home.” ~Heima by Sigur Rós
This sweater is all about being calm. I originally purchased the yarn to make a warm, comfortable sweater that I could wear around the house on my days off.
When the original pattern just wasn’t working out, I ripped out the project, chose new contrast colors, and started on [...]

Bright Toes

Last April, one of my dear friends said the magic words. I was knitting away on a sock, and she casually mentioned that her sister had knit her a pair of socks once and she didn’t like them. They were big and uncomfortable.
Obviously, I had to set her straight.
I immediately measured her foot and had [...]

Three Bags Full

Keeping in mind that I had to walk home from working at the shop tonight, I only brought along one small bag. But the longer I stayed there, the more I seemed to acquire.
I spent some time relaxing at a coffee shop before work, so my little bag contained my plum aran accent vest (now [...]

Just When You Need It Most

I’ve had a rough couple of weeks. Lately, I’ve really needed some alone time but haven’t been able to get very much of it. The longer I’m around people, the harder it becomes. So I had a hard time being a ‘people person’ at work this weekend. I made it through, but took out my [...]