eye candy friday – food edition

We’ve been going to our local farmer’s market earlyearly Saturday mornings (we try to get there when they open at 7) and have definitely been enjoying our spoils. Last week I bought an extra large basket of peaches which were a bit riper than I’d thought.  When bruises started appearing, I knew I had to [...]

death of a sweater

Remember the Abstract Jacket?  I knew going into it that it would be a problem project.  I mean, a pattern without a schematic requires a lot of faith!  Faith that I gathered, and knit on.  The pattern became more of a guideline when I realized it’d end up a dress rather than a jacket if I [...]

flighty

It must be spring’s fault, but I can’t seem to land on anything for very long. I haven’t been able to get interested in finishing the sleeves for my Ariosa lace cardi, but I’ve been making great progress on the Abstract Jacket.  Believe it or not, I was kinda sad to see the seed stitch [...]

coulda woulda shoulda

I have not been myself this past week.  This is what I should be finishing up.  Just two sleeves to go.  Two little sleeves…but sometimes two little sleeves are just too much.  I found myself sitting in front of an armoire full of yarn last week, shaking my head and saying “I have nothing to [...]

slow going

My Ariosa Wrap Cardi is slowly growing.  I finished the back and fronts quickly (lace pattern on size 9 needles will do that), but lost my will to knit when I realized last week that the Amanda Jacket just wasn’t going to cut it.  I picked the needles back up Wednesday, seamed the shoulders and started [...]

I’m a hard knitter

You know the phrase, Work Smarter, Not Harder?  If it were applied to knitting, I’d be a hard knitter.  I can knit stitches like there’s no tomorrow, if it’s speed you’re looking for, I’m your gal.  I’m not the fastest knitter by far, but I daresay I’m pretty productive.  But productivity doesn’t really matter if [...]

for once, it’s not me

Just got a reply from Lisa Lloyd, designer of the Amanda Jacket and all the beautiful patterns in A Fine Fleece, and apparently there is an error in the number of decreases given in the pattern for at least two of the sizes, but not addressed in the errata. I’m going to decrease until I [...]

smackdown

Things were going so well. I knit my third Amanda sleeve.  It matched the second sleeve.  I joined the sleeves to the body and my stitch count was perfect.  It was a happy union.  I knit 1″ on the body and started the raglan decreases.  One inch later, I began the neck decreases.  Approximately 20 rows [...]

sleeves, sleeves

I love to knit sleeves.  It makes my day to knit a sleeve.  Or two.  Or three. Why else would I knit three sleeves for my Amanda Jacket? It couldn’t be because… A.   I decided I didn’t really like the contrasting cuff; or B.  I’m optimistic that I’ll have enough handspun to knit the entire [...]

March: Amelia

My March sweater for NaKnitSweMoDo is Amelia and she is a borderline fail. She fits Maude pretty well. And if Maude were who I made Amelia for, I’d be perfectly happy. I can wear her, but she’s not very flattering. Thanks to SB for taking pics this morning, but sweetie?  You should’ve told me I [...]

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