transitions

I’ve come to realize that I may be a tad bit obsessive. I love how peach jam starts out pink! Oh yes, and I’m easily distracted.  It seems my new obsessions of making jam and improving my health and fitness have supplanted my old obsessions of knitting/spinning/blogging. Maybe it’s because I can’t eat yarn.  Or [...]

random brevity

We just got back from the beach.  It was hot. I knit a pair of socks, mostly on the drives.    This is the second time I’ve knit this pattern (Traveler’s Stocking by Nancy Bush). The first pair were a gift and were worn and photographed in an excellent spinning book.  This pair has a lot [...]

so much

I’ve gone a little crazy with the spinning lately.  This mess is still hanging out on the dining room table, waiting for tags and storage and receiving a daily squeeze as I pass by. These are the newest yarns I’ve spun – mostly merino, some with a little sparkle thrown in.  L-R: a 1 oz. [...]

step by step, inch by inch

I am slowly getting some things done! First up – another pair of gift socks! Lynn asked me how I magically knew what size to knit gift box socks, which is a good question.  When I start a pair of gift socks, I have in mind the recipient, but I don’t blog names in case [...]

zinnia socks

Every summer, I plant (by which I mean, SB removes all the weeds that have grown during the winter and preps the bed for me, and I go outside, decide what flower seeds go where, and sprinkle them about. It’s a great arrangement, I highly recommend it!) a cutting garden of zinnias, sunflowers, cosmos, and [...]

summer of sox

It’s shaping up to be a summer of socks around here.  Temps in the 90s, 80% humidity and no relief in sight. These are the man socks I knit for the gift basket.  Trekking XXL in decidedly man colors.  I’m now three pair of socks to the good, woo hoo!  We’ll see how many actually [...]

second verse, same as the first

Except with different yarn. My yarn finally (thank you, volcano!) arrived from Shetland!  I immediately pushed all projects-in-progress aside and knit a swatch. Not a ton of difference color-wise between the two (new swatch is on the right), but the real difference will come when I knit the entire cardigan.  Just as a reminder – [...]

finito!

My MIL’s birthday socks are finished!  Eight days, cast on to cast off.  Amazing what new yarn can do for my stick-to-it-ness! Pattern:  Child’s First Socks by Nancy Bush in Knitting Vintage Socks Yarn:  A tad less than two skeins of Koigu KPPM (if anyone really wants to know the colorway, I can find it).  [...]

Contrary to the blog silence, I have been knitting.

I knit two pair of handspun socks on US3s, but the picture didn’t come close to doing them justice, so I’ll have to post that later.  These pictures aren’t great either, but you know how it is this time of year – I leave the house as it’s getting light and get home in the [...]

ready for fall

New socks make me want to put on my Birks and walk along the sidewalk, crunching leaves underfoot and enjoying the cool breeze!  Unfortunately, I’ll have to wait a little while for that. Those are mostly plain vanilla socks, but I jazzed them up a little.  The cuff is a broken rib pattern – k2, [...]

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