Posted: February 21st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: projects: treeline striped cardigan (ravelympics), sweaters, tanis fiber arts green label, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: cardigans, crafty, handmade, knitting, knitting olympics, ravelympics, sweaters, treeline striped cardigan | No Comments »
I was all set to post on Thursday, and talk about how my sweater was going and how excited I was. I’d finished this much.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to sit down and write until today, and now I’ve knit this much.
I just really, really like this project, and the stripes are looking so cool as I knit them up. I’m excited to see how much I can get done before next Sunday.
Posted: January 19th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: cascade 220, cascade eco wool, hats, scarves&shawls, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: cables, crafty, handmade, harry potter, harry potter scarf, hat, hogwarts, knitting, lucky 7 hat, poa scarf | No Comments »
I’m slowly knitting away at the work I’m doing for P-, and getting close to being done!
This is off the needles, although all the finishing – sewing down the ends and adding fringe – is still on the go, but I’m very excited about it. I’ve also started on the second piece I need to get done, and it is flying off the needles like nothing.
I started this yesterday (it’s a hat – the Lucky 7 Hat, to be exact) and I’m already close to the crown. I think there’s something about cables that just makes me knit faster.
Song of the Entry: Jenny Owen Young – Hot in Herre
Posted: November 30th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: dream in color, hats, projects: christmas knitting 2009, scarves&shawls, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: dream in color classy, gifts, handknit, handmade, hat, knitting, stripes | 1 Comment »
Oh man, it has not been that long since I posted. Oops.
So anyway, after that last entry full of good intentions and plans for Christmas knitting and resolve to work on my sweater, I sat down with my friend D- for coffee. And D- is a really swell guy, but sometimes his head gets cold, so he said to me: could you knit me a hat?
We have been friends for seven years. I said yes.
(This is the best picture of the hat I have, and it’s no longer mine to to photograph. I have this problem with things I knit for gifts. Anyway, it’s made of Dream in Color Classy, half from stash and half bought fresh. I used Jared Flood’s Turn A Square pattern.)
Okay, but here is the thing. D- has a roommate, and he is also my friend. We’ll call him, I don’t know, B-. I couldn’t knit something for one without offering to knit something for the other, obviously, so I’m also making a scarf. In the same yarn.
(I’m trying my hardest not to go all Mrs. Weasley and accidentally give them matching winter wear. It’s going well so far.)
