Dying Recycled Cashmere

When we first moved down here, I bought several lots of wool recycled from old sweaters on eBay. We’d been living rather hand to mouth at that point so there wasn’t a lot of discretionary funds for ‘good’ yarn. I even ‘recycled’ a sweater or two myself. I haven’t touch the majority of that yarn, [...]

The Scut Farkus Affair

While watching TBS’s 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story, it hit me that this film had some of the most incredible handknits I’d seen on screen. Or at least the most. Scene after scene featured handknit items. “Holy cannoli!” I thought. “I wonder if there’s a Christmas Story group on Ravelry.” There wasn’t so I [...]

Christmas Crap

We’re housesitting for a lovely lady for a few weeks, looking after her house, cat and ’special needs’ dog. She has a huge place with tons of room so we were finally able to host Christmas. Usually, we sponge off everyone else – eating their food, using their hot water, dirtying their linens, etc. I [...]

Screamin’

I am screamin’ along with all the knitting projects. I’m like the Bionic Woman — remember when she’d turn the chalkboard around and fill it in 3 seconds with scribbling? That’s me and my knitting. I made Dad’s second Dashing in one evening and even made progress on FSM.

Knitty’s Dashing
Paton’s Classic Merino Wool in New [...]

Oooh La La

We’re moving into deadline again, which can mean late nights and little knitting time. But, man, have I got a ton left to do! I’ve prioritized, so the “must haves” will be done by the big day, but there are a few other things I’d really love to do and FSM only knows if I’ll [...]

Sick, Sick, Sick

I left work early Thursday and never went back because I finally caught Hubbo’s cold. I was down all weekend, which is bad for keeping the boat clean or getting work done but is great for Christmas knitting. It was fairly flying off my needles! Mom’s Fetchings are done (though I dope-ily forgot to snap [...]

Fetching

Man oh man, are these puppies fast to knit! I’d read they’re a quick knit but, c’mon. I cast on yesterday on a short 30 minute drive to Half Moon Bay yesterday afternoon. I then interviewed the most amazing man who sailed nearly non-stop from Half Moon Bay (just south of San Francisco) to the [...]

Carrie!

The note was here at work the whole time – it’d gotten stuck on the underside of my calendar somehow. So my supercool secret pal was Carrie. Check out her blog at http://coveredinyarn.wordpress.com – she has some VERY cool photography (not to mention knitting)! Thanks Carrie for being so cool!

A Really Good Story

So much to share, so little bandwidth! First off, mad props to my supercool secret pal for spoiling me so much this go-round. Look at the last installment:

Shaken, not stirred.
Some totally awesome FibraNutura Flax linen yarn with a knitted bracelet and FINALLYFINALLYFINALLY some pretty stitch markers! I’ve been longing for pretty markers for ages — [...]

Sleeves the Easy Way

Ya gotta love it! No seaming!