The sweater yarn is done! All one and a half pounds of it. It ended up being 1087 yards and it knits up to 5 sts per inch on a US7. I’m going to use it for Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Seamless Saddle Shoulder Pullover for the Ravelympics. Now the real challenge is waiting until the Olympics [...]
Or at least I’m still taking pictures of knitting and food (the food will have to wait for the Daring Bakers and Daring Cooks reveal days though. This past week I went to Twisted and got two skeins of DIC Classy, one in Shiny Moss and the other in November Muse, to knit Stephen West’s [...]
Yep, it’s another Koolhaas Hat this time in Shibui Merino Aran. It was my last minute “must have something to kee me sane during our reschedual family Christmas get together” project. Thank god Knit/Purl was open on New Years Eve.
I also started the ubiquitous Noro Striped Scarf from the Silk Garden that I bought at [...]
So turns out, I don’t knit all day every day (who would have thought…existance with out constant knitting). Normally I can make it look like I do, but because I’m posting every day this month, I just can’t come up with the creativity (or time) to post something about my knitting or spinning everyday. So, [...]
See that book – the Chez Panisse Café Cookbook. My philosophy teacher is loaning it to me for “as long as [I] want it”. I had conference with her on Friday (we meet with our profs every other week to go over our conference projects) and she was a bit late with another person and [...]
A few days after I got my package from Yorkie (see the post directly before this one) I decided that I needed to spin some of the larger of the two rovings. I split it in half and pre-drafted one of those halfs, saving the other half for later. Now originally I wanted to use [...]
I did some marathon knitting on Sunday and finished Koolhaas at 2:45ish am. I would have just stopped and gone to bed, and then, I got to the crown shaping decreasing thing and was like “oh fuck it, I might as well finish it. So here it is:
It is knitted out of the merino that [...]
So I cast on the Anemoi Mittens the day after finishing my Cobblestone Pullover because one can never go 24 hours with out a project on the needles.
And then I realized that no, actually Anemoi isn’t portable when carried in my messenger bag with books and a laptop (or, when school starts up again next [...]
Red Light Special – done! Its my first attempt at fair-isle and I’m rather pleased with it. It was a pretty quick knit too, I started it on Tuesday night and finished it at 12:30am on Saturday. Note that most of the time was spent with me bitching about the hem and there were a [...]
