I am officially obsessed with my Vega beret. The project began with a bit of trepidation: first the mathy acrobatics involved in getting gauge. I always need to go up a needle size for everything (use a 6?), but ribbing is usually knitted on needles 1 size smaller than the body of the project (use … Continue reading In Which I Throw Technique to the Wind
Category: Shop on the High Street
Posts originally published on my previous blog, shoponthehighstreet.blogspot.com
Unexpected Diversions
After a break so short that I didn't even get to wash my backpack, we are back to school. Over the weekend, however, Querido and I spent the weekend in a place I never thought I'd go: Las Vegas. Mousie came along, too! (muchisimas gracias, Querido, for helping Mousie pose just about everywhere we went) … Continue reading Unexpected Diversions
Good things in a Small Package
I simply love getting things in the mail. (We've discussed this before). The anticipation, the package, the return address to someplace far away with a name that evokes far-off hills, and sheep, and people in sweaters wrapping bouncy skeins of wool in cream-colored places and sending it to the far corners of the country (in … Continue reading Good things in a Small Package
Betwixt and Between
The only issue I have with finishing a big project like Lyttelton Brown is that it leaves me without anything to knit. If this weekend had not been the death throes of the semester (aka finals), I might have gone stash diving, emptying out half the bags in the stash tote and flipping through my … Continue reading Betwixt and Between
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. Sure … Continue reading No-Fail
Hello Lyttelton
Look what's back on the needles: the Lyttelton that I started what feels like ages ago!My apologies to Kate Davies: I disregarded the instructions to backstitch the side seams together, opting instead to crochet them together. My logic was that the crochet seam would be just as firm as the backstitch, with the bonus of … Continue reading Hello Lyttelton
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 corner of … Continue reading New Week, With Red Shoes
