Category: Finished Object
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How to Knit a Hedgie Quick
Knit it for a baby shower! Nola the Hedgehog is number two in the trio of knitted toys I’m making on a deadline (Kiwi was the first). I have to say, I am a much more productive knitter when working on a deadline than when just working. This productivity sometimes compromises my sanity, like when…
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Hello Melvie
My apologies for the complete disappearance; I was so tangled up in knitting, I didn’t have time to blog. Well, I might have if I didn’t also hold a full time job, but that’s a separate issue. I’m back, and I have a finished object! Remember how, in my last <a href="https://antiquotidian.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/melvie/"most recent knitting-related post,…
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New
Happy New Year, everyone! In years past, I have come up with ambitious lists of resolutions. This year, there are lots of things that I would like to happen, but I am content to leave them as dreams and not subject them to the harsh rigors of reality. All I demand of myself in the…
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Mixed Bag
At 8:40, this has already been a mixed-bag sort of day. I woke up to my dog barfing on my floor and carpet, then had to quaff my coffee and scuttle down the street to catch my bus. But then on the bus, I finished two projects! I am rawther pleased. The first, a Toadstool…
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Guinea Pig Tails
Guinea pigs do not have external tails. I came across this curious fact of natural history when Querido commissioned me to knit a guinea pig for his mother, in honor of all the guinea pigs he’d had growing up. I agreed and began, giving it a little nubbiny tail and increasing for a rounded guinea…
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Vega Photoshoot
Every year, central Arizona waits waits waits waits waits for cool weather, and we’re teased, and disappointed, and then wham bang it’s a scant 55º at the bus stop in the morning. Hat weather! Good thing I’ve got a new tam… Above you see the Vega Beret, as it is properly named, in progress. This…
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No-Fail
This weekend, Querido y I retreated up north to escape the muggy heat of the Valley. I brought along the nearly-but-not-quite-finished Lyttelton Brown as my only light sweater. This was another opportunity to test my favorite sweater-finishing strategy: bring it along as the only sweater on a trip where I’m sure to need a sweater.…
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New Week, With Red Shoes
Of late, there has been something about Mondays that necessitates wearing red shoes. Yes, with a green purse. Criticize not: it’s a Namaste bag. These are not red shoes worn in a desperate attempt to make the week survivable, but red shoes worn in triumph, for I have conquered the festering mess that was my…
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One Down
1. My second Haruni, called Silver Leaves for the obvious reasons, is completed, blocked, and gifted. 2. In spite of my ridiculous mistake, resulting in a border of single leaves where pairs should have been, it was a quick knit. 3. Knitting the body was faster the second time around. The looped i-cord border was…
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Six Months to the Day
That is how long it took me to complete my third Icarus. I am not sure how I managed to work Haruni–a pattern I’d never completed before–in a month, without a single setback, while this shawl–a pattern I know well–was one setback after the next. I will not ponder that one too deeply; I’m just…
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