Sick and tired

I’m just sick and tired of my bro’s blankie. Will it never end? Apparently not. I’m on the 9th square of 9 so I should be happy, right? Right. I pulled all the squares out and the second one I knit is very sloppy and loosely knit. It’s a full log bigger on two sides [...]

Ode to a Meathead

I was getting my every-so-often dose of Julie this morning and read that her adorable Meathead was chosen for inclusion in Larissa’s book. She totally deserved it, what with her creative use of buttons. There were so many wonderful submissions, I figured mine would never make it. It wasn’t made with the right yarn, after [...]

Meet My New Love

This week has been a whirlwind. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are always a little hectic in the morning because we have a newsletter to get online by noon so when Hubbo called and said “I found a boat I’m buying” — for the 200th time — I said “Yeah, whatever. I have to call you [...]

How Do I Love Thee?

Let me count the colorways! Cara, in all her splendid, generous wonderfulness, saw fit to bestow upon me the coveted Interlacement Toasty Toes in Color 409. I cannot tell you in mere words how much I love this colorway (which, of course, is discontinued) so let me show you.

So, in honor of Cara’s original contest, [...]

What a meathead

I took Larissa’s challenge — anything to help another knitter, especially if she’s ballsy enough to write her own book — and knit up my very own meathead. My LYS is very chi-chi and apparently is too good to stock Lamb’s Pride so I ’settled’ for Cascade’s Lana Grande in Lime. The pattern calls for [...]