Olympic gold

What to say?  The past 16 days have been a whirlwind.
Friday night I finished the second sleeve and seamed the shoulders.  I tried it on and knew what I’ve known since I started knitting – this is not my sweater.  No, this sweater is meant for my daughter.  Even my son commented last weekend “that [...]

analyze this, Bob

The Olympic sweater is rocking along!  As you can see, the body is finished, and I finished the first sleeve this morning.  I am definitely enjoying this challenge, particularly watching the Olympic events (the men’s aerials last night were fabulous!) while working on my own challenge.
I debated blocking the body and letting it dry while [...]

olympic dreams

Since I started knitting four years ago and began reading knit blogs, I’ve looked forward to the next winter Olympics so I could participate.  It sounds like so much fun – the challenge of selecting a project and race to finish, going for the gold, and all the while watching winter Olympic sports – which [...]

Staghorn

I have pictures!

We drove out to Cheaha State Park yesterday and I brought my sweater along in case the opportunity for pictures arose.
As we drove into the park, I noticed all this white stuff in the tops of the trees.  My first thought was ‘who in the world toilet-papered these trees!’

IT WAS SNOW!!!  I have [...]

revealed

Ah, you know I couldn’t keep you guys in suspense for long!  The sneak peek in my last post is this little lovely from Gedifra:

KIDDING!!!  Ha-ha!  Isn’t that horrible?!?  Bulky yarn, novelty yarn, AND a faux fur collar?  What more could you (or the Bride of Frankenstein) ask for, huh?
Seriously, this is the sweater I’m [...]

I’d like you to meet Maude

She’s a dummy.  She has no ears, so it doesn’t offend her when I call her that.  She’s a little sumpin-sumpin I found on Craigslist for forty bucks.  Even though she does not adjust to my current measurements, I saw her as a good investment and incentive to get down to HER measurements.  I can’t have [...]

so close…

I’m almost done with the first sleeve of my Hexacomb Cardi!

I practiced complete project monogamy until Sunday afternoon and got all the way to the sleeve cap of the first sleeve.  The body is knit in one piece and then divided for the sleeves.  I’d made the armhole deeper than the pattern called for, and [...]

useful knowledge

I’ve finally got my thoughts and self organized a bit, at least enough to post about last weekend’s Useful Knowledge seminar hosted by Little Barn in Huntsville, Alabama. 
First off, the instructors were fabulous.  Stefania Isaacson taught a class on thrummed mittens on Friday which was interesting and I got this far on my mitten:

My thrums [...]

A birthday sweater!

Yup, it’s my birthday!

And I’m wearing my sweater!

Believe me, you did not want to see the expression on my face!  It was even worse than this:

Here are some detail shots:

Button I got at SAFF.  I hadn’t planned on using this button (1 of 3 I bought), but our brand new Super WalMart, right down the road [...]

Seam me up, Scotty!

Yes, I hear the collective groan from here!

Here’s an exciting shot of my sweater deep in the seaming process. 
Why didn’t anyone tell me that seaming was so much work?  Good lard it’s taking me almost as long to seam this thing as it did to knit it!  Okay, not really, but still.  I’m about three hours [...]

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