I have (finally!) finished all the knitting on the Kinari cardigan, and this morning I figured out how I want to do the button closures. I extend my deep appreciation to Ysolda, who has posted a very good tutorial with photos on how to make sewn button loops. I modified her instructions to make this [...]
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Envelope, Please
I printed out slips for each person who expressed an interest in the leftover Tokyo and Jaggerspun yarn this morning, put them in David’s Halfdome hat, and mixed them around. David got to choose the winning slip. And the winner is . . . Nicole’s comment read, "I’d love a chance to win the yarn [...]
Finished Object: Tokyo Top
Pattern: My own Size: 32″ bust, 13″ to underarm on body, 5" sleeve length, 7" sleeve opening Yarn: Interlacements Tokyo (50 percent merino wool, 50 percent silk; 500 yds per 100 g skein), color Taiga; Jaggerspun Zephyr Wool-Silk 2-18 Lace Weight (50 percent Chinese tussah silk, 50 percent fine merino wool; 630 yds per 2 [...]
Dinner Blogging: A New Frontier
I wrote a long post earlier that I lost by accident. Then I went downstairs to run on the treadmill only to discover that the DVD of Heroes I just got from Netflix is the exact same DVD of Heroes that I finished watching and returned last week. Feeling a little cursed, I decided to take [...]
Halfway to Tokyo
I finished the first half of the Tokyo top on Friday and got it blocked. As the end approached, I grew increasingly concerned about the size: I had calculated that the top was going to grow quite a bit when I blocked it, since that’s what my swatches had done, but the finished piece was [...]
Finished Object: Fana Pullover
I duplicate-stitched like a mad thing over the weekend, and Sunday night I managed to finish the Fana pullover. I felt pretty lukewarm about this sweater right up until I started putting the snowflakes on it, and then I started to love it. Now that it’s done and I’ve been wearing it for three days [...]
Coming Along
I had hoped to be finished with my Fana pullover by now, but the week kind of got away from me. I had a bunch of meetings to go to, and I started reading a book that totally sucked me in, so I didn’t get too much knitting done. I did manage to complete the [...]
On Hold
I managed to finish the body of the Fana pullover on Tuesday, and yesterday I blocked it and sewed and cut the steeks. Fana pullover, steeked and seamed at the shoulders I was a little nervous about this stage, and not just because it involved cutting my knitting. No, I was nervous because I had [...]
Growing on Me
The Fana pullover grew by leaps and bounds over the weekend. About 18″ of the Fana body At first, I wasn’t sure how I managed to knit so much in so short a time, and my previous faith that knitting in pieces is just as fast as knitting in the round was somewhat shaken. Then [...]
What I Did on My Christmas Vacation
I’m back from a few days in Mount Shasta, California, where I did some cross-country skiing, and from nearly a week in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where my parents live. I love Klamath Falls. How can you not love a place that looks like this in the winter? A view of Klamath Lake from the end [...]