New ideas are being hatched here at Ruthless Knitting. Maybe it’s because spring finally seems to have arrived, or maybe it’s just that my pesky Secret Design Project is nearly finished, but I have knitting excitement percolating in my brain for the first time in what seems like a long time! To go with it, [...]
Archives for April 2008
Shiny and New
When one has been working on a commissioned design project for several weeks and is thoroughly sick of it, it turns out that there’s nothing more thrilling than knitting a little bit on a plain old stockinette sock. The allure of the Shiny and New can be powerful, indeed. Plain old sock in Lorna’s Laces [...]
On Productivity
Since that last post was a bit of a downer, I thought I’d share something more positive. Last weekend, I went to a baby shower in Chicago, and my aunt Cathy gave me my grandmother Thelma’s knitting journals. She used these journals to list, in brief, everything she knit in a given month, who she [...]
Wishing Didn’t Make It So
Gather ’round for a tale of knitting gone awry. It all started more than a year ago, when my good friend Rebecca sent me an e-mail link to a garment at an online shop known for its beautiful knitwear, along with the question, "We could knit this, couldn’t we?" The garment in question was a [...]
Proper Storage
I haven’t been getting too much knitting done lately, and what I have been knitting is Top Secret, which has left me with not much to post about. Also, it snowed last night. The tulips are coming up, which is some compensation, but still — snow in April? Can we get a break here? In [...]