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Happy [belated] New Year to you all.
It’s strange, I’ve been thinking so much about posting lately — constructing posts in my head during the brisk hour-long walk home from school, while in the shower, while making dinner — that I forget I haven’t actually posted them. It’s a shame; I’ve had a lot to […]

Ask and you shall receive:
THANKSGIVING DAY MITTS

Materials:
less than a skein of worsted weight (I used a mystery wool similar to Cascade 220)
3.75 mm, US 5 dpns or needles required for preferred method of knitting in the round
Cable Needle (although I highly suggest cabling without one)
Tapestry Needle
Gauge:
Because these mitts are ribbed, gauge is not terribly important. […]

Recently, D and I decided to merge our households– namely, I will be moving in to his (now almost totally renovated) house (Stella, I totally owe you pictures!). There are many things I do not like about moving, especially when I have to do it twice in one year. I don’t like packing. […]

When I’m in the middle of writing — I mean when I’m really into it — I usually need something to keep my hands busy while my brain works.  I’ve knit many things this way and in the process I’ve found that the best knitting for writing is something simple and circular, but not too […]

It’s hard for me these days not to think of Thursday as “the end.” I teach for the last time each week on Thursday. I have four days before I have to teach again, four days with no prep, no need to be on campus, no hard-and-fast deadlines. I constantly need to […]

Pattern: Drunken Bees, from Domesticrafts
Yarn: Koigu KPPM, in what I call “Bombay Sapphire”
Needles: US 1 dpns

Thoughts/Modifictions: Man. This pattern rocks. It’s so squishy and crazy and complicated-looking. But really, it’s one of the most fun knits I’ve done in a while, even with four different attempts. This sock is […]

We all fall into this trap — we start knitting something and suddenly, just far enough into the project that we’ve become invested, we realize there is no way we’ll have enough yarn to finish the project.  In denial, we knit on — furiously, speedily, as though the faster we knit, the less quickly we […]

Mittens!

Pattern: Target Wave Mittens, by Norah Gaughn (from Interweave Fall ‘06, although it’s also in Knitting Nature)
Yarn: Malabrigo worsted in “Frost Gray” and “Red Mahogany” (not even half a skein of either color)
Needles: Clover US 5 and Latern Moon US 8, straights for both
Thoughts:  Well… A good, serious blocking did the trick with these.  They […]

Today is extraordinarily beautiful.  I went for a long walk this morning and took some photos (this is gonna be a photo-heavy post, all in the name of spring and Project Spectrum, of course!)

Pattern: My own (based on Eunny’s Endpaper Mitts, but modified a lot)
Yarn: Lorna’s Laces in “Tuscany”
Needles: Knitpicks dpns, US 0
Thoughts: Fun, quick, […]

… or rather, while I wasn’t posting — there was a lot of knitting going on.

 [Pardon the photo… I took it last night in the bathroom mirror.  Still trying to figure out how to do self-portraits with knit-wear]
Pattern: Purl Beret (thanks to Melissa for turning me on to the project)
Yarn: Collinette Jitterbug in “Tuscany” courtesy […]