Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Last Thursday, with no warning or advance planning, it suddenly dawned on me that I had to knit a Swallowtail Shawl from the Fall 2006 Interweave Knits. And I had to knit it right now. It was the weirdest thing – I don't know what led me there. It just popped in my head. I [...]
Saturday, January 6, 2007
If you've arrived from my old site, please take a moment to update your bookmarks/subscriptions. I'm still settling in, so there may be a few changes in the coming days, but it shouldn't be anything substantial. And I promise to have a new post up soon! If you're looking for something specific, the post structure [...]
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Happy New Year! I've never been one for making New Years Resolutions, but there are a few knitting-related things I would like to accomplish over the coming year. I won't bore you with all of them, but I would like to state one for the record. I would like to make a sweater for myself [...]
Friday, December 29, 2006
In order to avoid writing a humongous post on December 31 to get through my whole list of bloggy items, I'm going to do a really quick one this morning, before I leave for work. It's so quiet in the office, nobody will really notice if I'm just a wee bit later than usual. Except [...]
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Three years ago today, on November 11, 2003, I quit smoking. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done, and I am still incredibly proud of myself for this. If you smoke and want to quit, or have recently quit and are struggling, do yourself a favour and go visit QuitSmokingSupport.com, and [...]
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Saturday, October 21, 2006
I’ve done a bit of re-decorating around the blog lately. Today, I added all of my FOs to my Flickr site and added the link over on the sidebar. These are only the things I have finished since I began blogging in July. I don’t have pictures of the stuff I did before that (mostly [...]
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I know, I know, I’ve raved about how much I like laceweight yarn and small needles. But I’ll admit, sometimes it is fun to do things that are quick and easy. Such as the following hat I made for Dulaan: Pattern: Brioche Stitch Watchcap from Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Knitting Without Tears Yarn: 2 strands of Patons [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, reading knitting blogs has opened up so many new knitting horizons for me. Most of my past knitting was done with worsted weight or thicker yarns, and generally acrylic. I especially loved doing cables – in the mid-nineties I made a boxy, drop-sleeved, heavily cabled tunic-length sweater out of chunky weight [...]
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Lots of little odds and ends today. I’m writing this before I leave for work, so I’ll see how much I have time for. Anything I don’t get to will have to wait for another day. Wednesday is the only day I have time in the mornings – a couple of months ago I started [...]
This week my new swift finally arrived. And it’s fabulous. I set it up immediately and wound a ball of laceweight in minutes. But I forgot to take pictures. Bad blogger. So I dug out another skein that I’m not yet ready to use, but wound for demonstration purposes. So…. 1 skein of Socks that [...]
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