Rush Hour Knitting

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 [...]

January was a quiet, unsnowy month. (Unlike right now,with an honest-to-goodness blizzard outside!) RON NEW YEAR’S SOCKS Pattern: Plain Stockinette sock Yarn: Opel Harry Potter sock yarn in Ron colorway Needles: US1/2.25mm Notes: How much fun were these? I had my eye on this colorway for a while, and happened upon a vendor at Vermont [...]

2009 was a great year for knitting. I didn’t plan for it to happen, but I knit a sock a month: 12 socks, all for me. The BSG socks (March) were also my first test-knit, an experience that helped me an awful lot as I started designing my own patterns: And I knit beautiful beautiful [...]

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 [...]

November’s a strange month for blogging about knitting: Lots of knitting happens that has to stay secret, at least for a few more weeks. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t have things to share: First off, the HOLLY & IVY SCARF & WRAP: which I’m so happy with. I’ve been wearing the scarf everywhere, and [...]

October was a work in progress. (That’s me, knitting on the Big Sock at Rhinebeck.) I finished one, count ‘em, one project: Autumn Socks But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t knitting my little heart out in between Rhinebeck’s moments of sheer awesome. On my needles currently are living: -one half-completed pair of Jaywalkers -one half-completed [...]

September is a watershed month for me, with Baby’s First Pattern Released For Sale. And on top of that there was one of the most complex sock patterns I’ve tackled yet, and half of a sweater that I haven’t gotten around to photographing. OCTOBER LEAVES FINGERLESS MITTS Pattern: October Leaves Fingerless Mitts Yarn: Knit Picks [...]

August was a slow month. I had lots of things on the needles, and then a ridiculous heat wave hit and all I wanted to do was move to the Yukon. (Summer is colder in the Yukon; you can still knit.) Since I am writing this post instead, you may safely assume I am still [...]

July was a month of traveling hither, thither and yon. I had several professional conferences to visit, so I was bouncing from DC to Chicago back to DC. Lots of time on planes and trains, including a delightful seatmate on Amtrak who decided he would try to use me in lieu of getting an actual [...]

What better way to spend my Fourth than in my personal pursuit of happiness — that is to say, with yarn! (Also happiness: engaging in my annual re-watch of 1776, because, really, can it get any better than singing, dancing Founders harmonizing about the amazing powers of Jefferson’s violin playing? No. No, it cannot.) Here, [...]