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FO: Dashing, Finally!

These took way, way, way longer than they should have. I cast on as a quick project in December and (sigh) two months later, here they are:

Pattern: Dashing (from Knitty, Spring 2007)
Yarn: Malabrigo Worsted Delight, in “Frost Gray” (under a skein… this stuff has wonder-yardage)
Needles: US 5 and US 4 dpns

Thoughts: Well… other than […]

Warm Hands…

Today is the perfect first day of February — gloomy, dark, rainy, and generally kind of miserable. A day to foreshadow what will inevitably be the weather for the rest of the month. But because we’ve only had cold-and-incredibly-sunny lately, and it’s only the first of february so I haven’t had time 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. […]

Merger

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. […]

… but i’ve been drowning a little.  I haven’t blogged in forever.  I’m behind on bloglines.  I’ve stopped commenting on the blogs I do manage to read.  I haven’t gotten more than 6 hours of sleep at night in over a week.  I’m falling into the pit of mid-semester.
I’m pulling myself out of it and […]

When I was in highschool, I was in a modern dance company.  The director of the company was this wonderful woman — very calm, very patient, wonderful choreographer.  When we were rehearsing and working up pieces, she would break each dance into sections and we would run through them one at a time.  When she […]

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 […]

 Sigh.  These were meant to be a quick knit.

Remember how my year began — with the complete inability to follow directions?  Well, it looks like I’m keeping with this trend.  I finished mitten number two this afternoon, only to find that a) the second thumb is longer than the first and b) apparently I didn’t […]

So I lied…

I couldn’t help myself.  I was having a bad day.  I needed something new, something to spark my interest.  And spark my interest it did, since I stayed up until 2 a.m. to finish it.  It’s been a while since my knitting has inspired this kind of dedication.

I’m gonna hold off on commenting on my […]

Basking

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, […]

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