I got the Tokyo pattern written up over the weekend, so I offer it to you for your knitting pleasure. You can do a direct PDF download (2.4 MB) via this link or visit the Designs page at your leisure and follow the link there. Or, if you’re a Ravelry user, you can download [...]
Archives for Finished Objects
Finished Object: Bird in Hand Mittens
Pattern: Bird in Hand by Kate Gilbert Size: 7" in diameter and 10" long Yarn: Jaeger Matchmaker Merino DK (100 percent merino wool; 130 yds per 50 g skein), shades 865 and 790 Yardage: About 160 yds turquoise and 90 yds beige Source: Monterey Yarn, Green Bay, WI Needles: US 2 (2.75 mm) Knit Picks [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wrapping Things Up
Thanks for all your enthusiastic comments about Slim! It’s wonderful to get positive feedback from other knitters. I’ve been busy working through a list of things I wanted to get done before we leave town on December 24. In addition to baking and mailing fifteen pound cakes, among other things, I have finally finished writing [...]
Finished Object: Slim
Pattern: My own Size: 35″ bust, 14.5″ to underarm on body, 14″ shoulder to shoulder, 18″ to underarm on sleeve, 8″ armscye Yarn: Beaverslide Dry Goods Light Sportweight (90 percent Beaverslide merino wool, 10 percent kid mohair; 440 yds per 4 oz hank), three skeins of Mink Heather and one skein of Chokecherry Heather Yardage: [...]
Hung by the Chimney with Care
Thanks for all your kind comments on Otto the Turkey! He did a good job acting as our Thanksgiving centerpiece, and I left him to live with our host, my sister-in-law Amy, who seems quite fond of him. I’ve been working on the pattern and hope to have it posted by the weekend. Yesterday, I [...]
Wildlife Spotting
Who’s that peeking through the trees? It’s Otto the Turkey! He’s come to wish you a happy Thanksgiving . . . . . . to politely request that you lay off the turkey this year and eat extra pumpkin pie instead . . . . . . and to show off his tail feathers! Have [...]
Finished Object: Middlebury Cardigan
The second sleeve for the herringbone sweater progresses slowly. Meanwhile, my mom sent me some buttons from Portland that she thought might work out for the Middlebury cardigan, and they are just the thing. Mom saves the day again! At last, the finished Middlebury cardigan! It is super-comfy. The Rescue Buttons are purple and are [...]