Category: Unfinished Object
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Restart
Far back in March, I wound the yarn for a Twenty Ten cardigan and put it with the needles in a bag. I must have been in a confident mood, because I listed that day as my start date. Sometime in April I cast on and put everything back in the bag. Today, I gave…
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Still Knitting
Hello, dear readers. This may look like a picture of ribbing, or the beginning of a ribbed beanie, but it is actually a picture of three weeks. Three weeks is a long time in blog land, but in real life it went by in a snap. In these three weeks, I had my first tenure…
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Mostly Here
Greetings, dear readers, from the land of the barely awake. Few words this morning, but I have pretty things to show you. Lovely KnitCircus gradient yarn that came in the bag of funder goodies from the Great Northern Knits Kickstarter. A Talamu shawl, with the end in sight.
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The Middle Bit
Yesterday I did a very impressive thing: I went into a nice yarn store, and I didn’t buy any yarn. Some friends and I were at the Yarn Barn. I don’t know what happened the first time I was there, because it didn’t seem like a particularly exciting store. Yesterday was an entirely different story:…
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Listen to the Math
(Title thanks to Tokyo Police Club.) Happy Friday all! I don’t know about you, but I am in need of a little extra time to slow down and remember what’s important. I remain determined to finish my little sweater, but part of that resolve means proceeding cautiously, without my usual rush-rush-rush. So Sleeve 2 was…
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Can’t Let Go
I meant to do a post about Querido’s sweater, which is coming along slowly but without major mishap. But I can’t let go of this top. The sleeves continue to confound me, but they’re so little, so deceptively simple…I keep having to take a crack at getting them right. This week will be chilly, too…I…
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One Day
One day, this little scrap of knitting will be a sleeve. But not until I have ripped and reknitted it a fourth time.
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Lilacs
Hello dear readers, I hope you aren’t champing at the bit to see Querido in a brand new sweater, because that’s nowhere close to happening yet. Last Saturday was an outrageously SPRING day, with the lilacs and ornamental cherries and trees with white flowers and trees with tiny mauve flowers going crazy, and I decided…
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