Miracle of miracles, you see before you two 8-inch squares in left-over Cascade 220 for Ann & Kay’s Aghanalong. I’m so relieved to have a more respectable pair of squares to contribute this time!
Plus, it was fun to try out a couple of stitch patterns from the 365 Stitches a Year Calendar. In the beige […]

I’ve been slacking off on my posts so much that I actually have TWO finished objects to report.
Drum roll…. after several months of seemingly endless quantities of pink Cascade 220 wool yarn, it’s… the completed First Blush Sweater! Hurrah!

I’ll snap a picture of me modeling it sometime, but I just couldn’t bear the thought of […]

Finally — a weekend to spend outdoors! If anything, the weather has actually been TOO hot for my taste. (What ever happened to 60-70-degree spring weather? What’s up with going directly from freezing to 80+ degrees??)
First up, Saturday morning, Kate drove downtown to deliver our cookies and banana bread to our local MoveOn.org Bake Sale. […]

Click to see just how happy she really is!
That’s little Miss Miriam modeling the fun summer clothes that I was sewing a few weeks ago. She’s such a sweetie. (And so is her mom!)
I should have a completed back piece of the Emerald City Tank to show you by now, BUT I got within the […]

I’m still here! Still knitting! Just haven’t been sitting down to the computer as much.
Thank you so much everyone for the neckline knitting tips. I only just today finally got over to the knit shop to pick up the correct size needles, so I haven’t tackled the problem area yet. But I feel like my […]

I’m well on my way to assembling the various pieces of my first adult-size sweater after my class last night. However, the rollneck collar is in need of some serious help. It has three issues (at least!)…

1. Holes. Guess I need to space my picked up stitches a little better. Is there any harm in […]

Off to class I go to figure out how to put all these sweater parts together! I finished the second sleeve last night, just in the nick of time. Nevermind that I was off on the placement of the stripe — doh! Oh, well. Kate assures me that asymmetry can be a desirable quality.
In addition […]

Not a lot of knitting news worth blogging about. My mission is just to finish the second sleeve for First Blush by Thursday, which is my last class at the knitting shop. I really should have had sleeves done by the last class — because it seems like a lot to cover all of the […]

I’ve been taking a little break from the First Blush sweater this week to get started on a couple of new things.
I’m trying the Log Cabin method for an afghan made from some of the acrylic yarn that I inherited recently. I attempted to crochet at first, but I wasn’t getting anywhere figuring it […]