Category: Finished Object
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Lace!!!
Finished object!!! Quick specs: Pattern: Haruni, by Emily Ross.Yarn: Alpaca with a Twist FinoNeedles: Size 4 Takumi Clover circularFull details on Ravelry This project combined most of the things I love about lace: a basic, organic motif for the body, a bit of fancy for the edge, and *blocking*. I am enamored with blocking. You…
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It’s Fall!
Certainly took long enough. We’re in for a few freakishly high highs before Halloween, but the mornings are cool, and on days when the clouds are obliging, one can get up at a reasonable hour and bike to the park for lunch and a new-shawl photo shoot. Pattern: Shetland Triangle, by Evelyn Clark.Yarn: Mountain Colors…
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Pimlico Finished
As usual, blog time is only an approximation of real time–although I’m just getting around to blogging it now, my Pimlico Shrug has been finished since Friday morning. But I love it! The yarn is soft and warm, and the pattern has struck the perfect balance between slouch and stylish, as promised. I had to…
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Lace Leaf Pullover Reveal
When I said I was on a wooly wool kick, I meant it–my latest FO, as the temperatures begin pushing past 100 with depressing regularity, is a 100% merino pullover: The Lace Leaf Pullover! Started in a moment of possession by EZ, finished in a few days of marathon knitting, the Lace Leaf Cardigan is…
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Darndest Thing
Remember how my beloved PowerBook crashed a while back? I finally got the chance to take it in for data recovery, and lo–the very professional young fellows at MacMatters recovered all my data. They did a good job, and were both more courteous and endearing than the staff at the nearest Apple store. If you’re…
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Week 4: Fresh Start
I’d hoped to go for a hike this morning and bring you guys back pictures of the mountain turning green, chubby little quail puttering among shoots of grass and wildflowers that have sprouted from all our rains. The only thing is that it was supposed to rain today. Not a problem as far as keeping…
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Abandon/Control
As a student, my year follows a slightly different cycle from the average person’s. My “year” officially ends with the end of the fall semester, and while I certainly mark the new calendar year January 1, my “year” doesn’t actually start until the start of the spring semester. In between is a short, blissful period…
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Week 11: Elizabeth Zimmerman Made Me Do It
For all I’ve been blogging about it, one would think I wasn’t knitting at all. Au contraire, my dear readers. First came the Mousie. Knit out of small amounts of Blue Sky Alpacas Sport Weight and my all-time-favorite stash yarn, Lamb’s Pride Worsted for a little instant gratification, my Mousie got me thinking about my…
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Week 8: Delurking
This is really terrible–one should not have to delurk on her own blog. But the weeks have been flicking past, and I cannot in good conscience leave my poor little blog (and readers) neglected. Last fall I did week-by-week updates, with success, so let’s try that again this semester. Knitting–I had terrific success with my…
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I Make a List
1. The Red Scarf, a.k.a. the Movie Scarf, is in the mail. Yaaay! 2. Pandora has tried to put Modest Mouse on my Death Cab station. Extermination is underway. 3. Pictured drying beside it is my version of the Cisco baby bonnet: Baby Blue Ears. It’s heavily influenced by the brilliant B r o o…
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