Category: Stash
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It’s a Bib! (boy version)
The Petal Bib pattern withstood the replicate test. Specs are identical to the girl version, with the exception of the color, Ice. I highly commend this pattern to anyone with a last-minute baby shower invitation and some fancy cotton hanging about. I consider myself a relatively slow knitter, but I did the petals while waiting…
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I Commit Another Crime Against Gauge
This time, the crime involves my string bag. Pattern: Elisa’s Nest Tote, long-handled versionYarn: Just over 1 skein of Plymouth’s Fantasy Naturale mercerized cotton color 9002 and one skein mercerized, cable-spun mystery cotton (worsted-ish weight) in green.Needles: size 8, but read on before you grab yoursAdditional note: See below for theoretical adaptation to worsted-weight yarn.…
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It’s a Bib!
Now all I need is a baby to put it on. A few years ago I was knitting a baby blanket in a café and the girl behind the counter–a slight acquaintance–asked if there was anything she should know. This rawther irked me, because a) I am not overly enamored with children (nor they me)…
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Speeding Along
My poor little thumb (left) has been taking a beating at work, and after the beating it took over the semester (note-taking–how sad is that?), it’s very sensitive. To spare it, this will be a low text entry. The Icarus is speeding along, so much as anything that has 400+ stitches per row can speed.…
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Easter
Easter is an interesting watershed point in the year. No matter whether it falls early or late in the year, it consistently marks the dividing line between when one can wear jeans during daytime hours and when one cannot. This year is no exception; we have officially entered phase one of the Endless Summer. Defining…
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Beware the Ides of March
And also knitting with Bamboo on dpns. My current (secret) stash project involves some leftovers from a stole I made out of Southwest Trading Company’s Bamboo, worked in the round on dpns. I thought it would be perfect out and about knitting–just round and round, no pattern to speak of–but I was sadly mistaken. Every…
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Leap Year
A History of English assignment is looming over my shoulder, but I have to get a post in tonight; this is leap year manifest. I used to love little trivia-type things like today. I suppose I still do, but as a full-time student part-time deskperson, it’s just not the same. Forgive the melancholy, but I…
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Movie Knitting
My treat to myself for surviving last week’s three tests was watching the Oscars. No homework during commercials, just my stash shawl. Say what you like about awards being fixed (which they are, or Pirates would’ve won for Best Special Effects. I mean come on–the effects in The Golden Compass even looked fake in the…
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When All Else Fails
There is knitting. The yarn may be a funny colored acrylic, and the needles raspy aluminum, but knitting is predictable. It is tractable, it goes at the pace you need it to, and it doesn’t wait until Tuesday to tell you what to study for your Thursday test. Not that that last bit’s actually happened…
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On a Mission
Poking around in Blogland the other day, I discovered this. Stash reduction, on a grand scale, complete with guidelines. The discovery clicked with a thought that has been lurking at the back of my brain for some time now: I have too much stash yarn. Before the chorus of protests erupts, let’s get some definitions…
Anti-Quotidian 