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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Still in Kentucky, but heading down this evening to MerleFest in North Carolina.
A few notes of interest:
- If you are participating in the Sound Swap, you should have received an e-mail from me with your “swapee.”  If you haven’t, drop me an e-mail and I’ll take care of this ASAP.

- There has been knitting here.  Mom’s fingerless gloves are […]

1. Non-drowsy cold medicines, of all varieties, make me feel high.  I used to think it was just Day-quil, but no.  It’s all non-drowsy meds.  Whatever it is they put in there to counteract the soporific qualities makes me absolutely dizzy-loopy.  It’s a challenge to knit on size 0 needles when you feel loopy.
2.  I’ve […]

As if the nasty weather weren’t enough, I’ve been floored by a particularly aggressive cold.  I haven’t even felt much like knitting, although I cast on and knit a few inches of my mom’s new fingerless gloves (good lord, this particular shade of lorna’s is beautiful!  You would never have known it from the skein, […]