Rush Hour Knitting

I’m thankful for a lot of things this year, like the roof over my head and the food I eat, and for my yarn (so much yarn) and the beautiful things I can make from it, and also this blog, because I have made quite a few new friends from it already, and discovered a [...]

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: [...]

My friend Melissa came up to the city on Friday and we went on a little adventure to the Cloisters. We saw very impressive carvings: and walked around the gardens, which are all ready for winter: Then we went downtown to see the Lion Brand Studio, but we forgot to check their hours. They were [...]

We’ve reached that time… the Christmas Crunch has started. I think Kate’s post on the subject has been the funniest treatment so far, so I won’t even try to beat that. I’ll just be smug that I’ve got at least some of it done already. Now. Back to work. Only 43 more knitting days til [...]

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 [...]