We live in Wisconsin, and it has been a cold and snowy February. This weekend, we got about a foot of snow in two separate waves. Isn’t it pretty? The backyard on Sunday morning The view from David’s office We keep the thermostat set at a decidedly conservative 60 degrees — down to 57 at [...]
Archives for February 2007
Finished Object: Buster
Buster is done, and it’s the best thing I’ve ever knit. The Buster sweater in all its glory Sleeve cap Inside So happy it’s finished! Buster and Me Buster required a lot of do-overs. I knit the back, ripped the top few rows and shortened the back, knit the front, knit one sleeve, seamed it [...]
Everything Old Is New Again
The first thing I ever knit was a sweater. Well, okay, I practiced casting on, knitting and purling, and then frogging for a few days before I began the sweater. But the first knitted object I made was a sweater. Why not start with something smaller and less complicated? My reasoning was simple: What I [...]
Finished Objects: Old World Jester Booties
Old World Jester Booties. Pattern by Gryphon Perkins. The Jester Booties from the back. Pattern: Old World Jester Booties by Gryphon Perkins from Interweave Knits, Winter 2006 (available only through Interweave’s website), smallest size. Yarn: Nashua Creative Focus Worsted in Brilliant Blue and Harvest Yardage: Not very much Yarn Source: Iris Fine Yarns in Appleton, [...]
Book Review: Fitted Knits by Stefanie Japel
I received Stefanie Japel‘s new book, Fitted Knits: Twenty-Five Designs for the Fashionable Knitter, in the mail today (an Amazon.com preorder), and I’m very impressed with it. I ordered it because I generally like Stefanie’s sweater designs — though her aesthetic is sometimes too funky for me — and I wanted to add a book [...]
Monday Miscellany
1. First things first, we have a sleeve: The first finished Buster sleeve, blocking It’s not much to look at, I know. Joanna’s comment on my last entry got me seriously considering doing patterning on the sleeves to match the patterning on the body, but after giving it some thought and drawing a sketch, I [...]
Project Buster: Over the Moon
Yesterday morning, I finished the front of my Buster sweater. Before breakfast today, I wove in the last of the ends. This is how many ends were involved in the front: The pile of ends I snipped off the Buster sweater after weaving in, atop the chart I finally got around to making of the [...]
Project Buster: Launched
I wanted plain stockinette, and I got it, by golly. Since mid-week, I have read Harry Potter (books five and six — I had fallen behind!) and knit the back of a sweater, which is now finished and blocked, though the armholes are too long. Also, there’s a section near the top where the yarn, [...]