Category Archives: knitting
Hello September!
Knitters, start your engines! The grass is brown, there’s a nip in the air, and Halloween candy has appeared at the grocery store. Yes, that’s right, the season for knitted accessories has begun. The beauty of the fall is that … Continue reading
And now for something completely different…
Carnivorous plant. Omnomnomnomnom.
Fibrations
I had a great time last weekend at my local fibre festival, Fibrations. Loads of weavers, spinners dyers, and more. There was even a booth demonstrating how to turn flax into linen. Neato. I showed great restraint and only came … Continue reading
On the Craftsy bandwagon
If there’s one thing I have learned from Blogland, it is that excellent photographers have perfect lives. Their houses are always clean, their babies are always sleeping peacefully, their dinners are always healthy and full of vegetables, their sweaters always … Continue reading
Oh look, more socks!
I don’t want to brag, but I believe I have knit the greatest socks of all time. That sounds crazy, I know, and you probably have a pretty great pair of socks on the needles too, but I just can’t … Continue reading
Wanida
The yarn is Tanis Fiber Arts blue label, colourway from this year’s fibre club. Lovely stuff. The socks are Wanida by Cookie A. Such clever construction, but simple to knit up. Every second round is a knit round which means they … Continue reading
60-yard sock
…and the yarn jumped on to my needles and became one wee sock. Self-striping yarn with no pattern repeats. Time to dye: 30 min. Time to untangle the giant mess I created with my striping method: 1 hour. Totally worth … Continue reading
60 yards
I just couldn’t wait for the Knitpicks shipment to arrive. Proper acid dyes to come later, but for now I give you 60 yards of Kool-Aid-Dyed glory. Self-striping. My kitchen smells like lollipops.
The socks that started it all.
I had trouble sleeping one night about a month ago. You know when you think you can hear an insect buzzing in your ear but you can’t see it, and somehow in your sleepy state you determine that repeatedly smacking … Continue reading
KAL-ing
Actually, it’s probably K-ing AL, not KAL-ing in the same way that it’s passers-by rather than passer-bys. People with strong feelings about grammar, please feel free to weigh in. Maybe this is moot because KAL isn’t a word. But anyhoo, … Continue reading
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