Rush Hour Knitting

Hello, Internets! I have had some adventures. I went to a baseball game. My team did not win, but I got to see some fireworks as well as Quackerjack, my favorite badass mascot: He acts all sweet around the kids (and the couples getting engaged, another thing I got to witness!) but this is one [...]

Spring is just about ready to tip over into summer: everything’s green and leafy; the air gets warmer and more humid with every passing day. Since it’s spring, I knit things with leaves. (Wait. I knit things with leaves in every season…) EMBOSSED LEAVES SOCKS Project: Embossed Leaves by Mona Schmidt, originally published in IWK [...]

So I showed you beautiful Baby Zoe in my last post, and promised you I’d tell you all about that pretty blanket she was modeling. BABY ZOE’S BLANKET Project: The Frances Nursing Shawl from Kristen Rengren’s Vintage Baby Knits Yarn: Plymouth Happy Feet, in the delightfully evocative color “6″. This particular blanket used just under [...]

Last weekend I went to the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival with Melissa and her husband Doug. It was very hot. We didn’t stay long. We had a list of tasks to accomplish (lamb sandwich, visiting The Fold, grabbing requests for a friend) and as soon as we had our list checked off we ran [...]

I’ve done lots of knitting this month. Want proof? Look at my To Be Blocked Pile: That is a Featherweight Cardigan on the bottom (Dream in Color Baby in Chinatown Apple) and a Simple Thing Shawlette on the top (Madtosh Sock in Rosewood). They are both beautiful beautiful beautiful and I love them to bits… [...]

February is always a short month, and yet I got so many things done. Behold: PRETTY QUIVIUT: Pattern: Pretty Thing by Stephenie Pearl-McPhee Yarn: Windy Valley Muskox Qiviuk, a magnificent surprise that I won as a door prize at the Ravelry Rhinebeck Party last fall. Needles: US 4/3.5 mm Notes: Wow. Magnificent combination of yarn [...]

So, as promised, here is the Olympic project I did finish: OLYMPICS HAT Pattern: Olympics Reindeer Hat, by Helena Bristow, which she kindly created by deconstructing the hats worn by the US Olympics team for the Opening Ceremony. Yarn: Stash diving! The red and blue are Knit Picks Wool of the Andes, and the White [...]

There are still some cookies left, and the tree is still gamely shedding needles, but Christmas is winding down. My gifts have been distributed and I can now share them with you all, in lovely photo mosaic format: In order: 1. Mom’s socks, knit in basic stockinette on US1s out of Lorna’s Laces Shepard Sock [...]

MAPLE SOCKS Pattern: Jaywalkers, by Grumperina Yarn: Lorna’s Laces Shepard Sock in Maple Grove Needles: US1/2.25mm Notes: This yarn was a souvenir from my trip to Chicago this summer. I spent a very long time in Loopy pouring over their large collection of Lorna’s Laces and picking out one pair (which has since turned into [...]

So I haven’t been talking very much about what’s been on my needles lately, and there’s two reasons for that. The first is that my family is tech-savvy enough to surf here and therefore I can’t discuss what they are getting for Christmas. (Well, of course they can reasonably assume they’re getting a knitted gift: [...]