The Brioche Scarf is a reclusive beast. When I first tried to take its picture, it curled up on itself like a pillbug When I laid it out flat, it put a spell on my camera that prevented the focus from working properly This is the closest thing to a decent picture that the scarf [...]
Archives for March 2007
A New Season
Spring has sprung here in Green Bay, and I couldn’t be more pleased about it. Usually, our neighbors’ bulbs start to come up long before ours do, so when I noticed sprouts in their yards during my run yesterday, I figured that I’d still have to wait a while for anything to happen in ours. [...]
Casting About
For the past few weeks, I’ve been in an odd knitting mood, not really devoted to anything that I’m working on while simultaneously convinced that it’s not really a good idea to start something new. There are too many loose ends in my knitting life, so I want to tidy them up — except, you [...]
Finished Object: Puff-Sleeved Feminine Cardigan
Thank you for all the kind comments about my essay yesterday. Moving on to cheerier subjects, I present the Puff-Sleeved Feminine Cardigan: The cardigan A view of the button band and lovely green buttons A modeled shot. I wasn’t too keen to have my picture taken today. Pattern: Puff-Sleeved Feminine Cardigan from Fitted Knits by [...]
Love Letters
Two years ago, I learned to knit at Christmastime, and my mom asked me if I wanted to look through the trunk of clothing my grandma made for my brothers and me when we were children. The trunk is full of treasures, all of them a little worse for the wear. There is a pink [...]
Book Review: No Sheep for You by Amy R. Singer
I’ve been looking forward to reading No Sheep for You since I first learned from Amy Singer’s blog that she was in the midst of writing it. I preordered it from Amazon months in advance of the publication date and have waited patiently for it to ship while many, many other people found and bought [...]
Where Things Stand
Thanks for all the comments on my knitting mystery! I also got some great advice from folks on the Knittyboard. Here is what I now know: The Afghan The afghan is hairpin lace crochet. It was constructed of individual strips that were created using a crochet hook and a hairpin lace tool. Each strip has [...]
A Knitting Mystery
An interesting package arrived today from my Aunt Cathy. It contains two unfinished projects begun by my grandma before she stopped knitting. The first is this cream sweater: The unfinished cream sweater And the second is this afghan in browns and teal: The unfinished mystery afghan Ideally, I’d like to figure out how to finish [...]
Finished Objects: Starbelly Baby Set
I went to a baby shower today and delivered this gift to its recipient, so I can reveal the “secret project” from January at last: Pattern: Starbelly Baby Sweater modified from Charles pattern in Jaeger JB29 (viewable here if you scroll down to see the white sweater at bottom), with creative input on the charting [...]
Finished Object: Brioche Scarf Rescue Hat
I’ve finished a hat for the Dulaan project, but it was such a quickie I’m not sure it deserves the full FO treatment. Nonetheless, here goes . . . (Apologies for yet another picture of my head. I tried to take the hat’s picture flat, but it wasn’t very cooperative.) Brioche Scarf Rescue Hat Pattern: [...]