So the big blue rectangle has become what I think is going to be a highly wearable, pretty blue poncho. Go figure! Despite the monotony of knitting what felt like miles and miles of stockinette, I’m glad I decided to make this. For one thing the Rowan Felted Tweed yarn is …
Somehow, I’ve ended up with a lovely window of down time for a couple of weeks. I’m in between summer classes, perched on the dash in the middle of the crazy long sentence that is my current editorial project. The timing couldn’t be nicer. The weather is fabulous, and this …
Behold the Crystal Palace Yarn sweater! Its proper name is He’ll Wear It Every Day (from The Yarn Girls’ Guide to Simple Knits). As you can guess from the pattern name, it’s actually sized for men. I knew it would be a bit big, but I just knit the smallest version and …
The Crystal Palace Yarn sweater is finished and blocking. I hope to have pictures of it later this week–Monday at the latest. For such a simple, spur-of-the-moment knit, it’s turned out to be something I think I might really enjoy wearing. Today, I’ve been working on the Easy Folded Poncho. …
Someone is stealing weeks. It has to be that, or how it could be June 13th?! Yikes! It turned out I wasn’t quite fully healed by the peach. It helped, but it took until the end of last week for me to feel like I was totally back on track. As …
Today, I ate the best peach I’ve had in at least a decade. It changed everything. Since my last post, I’d managed to come out on the other side of my work nightmare and walk right into being really pretty sick. I ended up with my third case of shingles. …
