Category: Stash
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New Look/Old Knits
What do you think of the new color scheme? I wanted something softer, without being too twee. Give me a poke in the posts if I’ve gone too far and you can’t separate text from background. And now (drumroll)…the results of my 2008 Stashbusting Mission: I got the inspiration from Wendy’s guidelines, adding only two…
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This is the New Year
Gotta love Death Cab. (Advance apology: all these photos are terribly lit. The fixture on my overhead died.) To start the new year afresh, we packed away our Christmas decorations, y las hermanitas y yo cleared the deadwood off our bookshelves: Alack, we are still double-stacking. I managed to fit my entire college education into…
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Week 14: Alpaca Fumes
As an avid reader of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, I am well versed in the hazards wool fumes pose to knitters (heaven knows I’ve even gone a little crazy in a yarn shop myself once or twice) I was unprepared, however, to learn that alpaca can have the same effect on dogs. When I washed my alpaca…
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Week 12: Happiness is a Warm Puppy
Sin dudo. This is Stella, and although happiness is undoubtedly a warm puppy, the little angel has caused a minor derailment of basically everything. Case in point: those Christmas socks? On hold for an entire weekend because the poor baby needed something to keep her warm outside. Warm Puppy (or dog) Cape:Just over 1 skein…
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Amoeba on a Stick!
Not really. It’s a February Baby Sweater, my first foray into the designs of Elizabeth Zimmerman. I’m hoping to create something unique but classic, along the lines of this or this rendition. Once again, we have the White Stripes-esque color scheme of my Baby Ull stash. Maybe something little Scarlett White would wear. And, once…
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Results
Whew. Olympic viewing has resulted in sleep deprivation of Olympic proportions. But for knitting time, it can’t be beat. Gigi is finished, not just the knitting but the neverending finishing too. More on that after I corner my photographer. My next focus is Christmas knitting (it feels too early, but I’m trying to avoid daylong…
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The Zen of the Scantron
This morning I had a novel test-taking experience. For one thing, all the stuff I studied for was on the exam. No we-downplayed-this-in-class-because-we-planned-on-devoting-an-entire-test-section-to-it questions. All the answers were on the paper, to be matched, chosen, or true-falsed. The answers did not have to be hand-written; we bubbled our answers in on a scantron. I think…
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Ultimate Recycling
Newest in our line of Miss Marple chic accessories is… The Sampler Bag Displayed here on a filing cabinet, this entirely unstructured bag is recycled from a pillowcase knitted from Lion Kitchen Cotton (circa 2000) as an experiment in the newly-learned techniques of cabling and entrelac. Cable mis-crossings add to the wonky charm of this…
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It’s the Heat
The other night, just as it was beginning to get dusky, Monita came in from taking out the garbage and remarked that it was pretty nice out. Our thermometer, parked deep in the shade of the back patio, read 100 degrees Fahrenheit. That might explain why I chose now to do that scarf I wanted…
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Happy Thoughts
I’ve got my happy thoughts: 1. The new Knitty is up. Yes, it’s been up for like a week now. Humor me. 2. I have a cool bag to carry my knitting out and about in. Technically, it hasn’t been out and about yet, but it will be. Right now, I’m using it to keep…
Anti-Quotidian 