See how I tried to make that exciting? I fear that it won’t work. I spent nine days knitting a sleeve, and now the sleeve is done, and it’s about as exciting as you would expect. It came out exactly the size I intended for it to come out. I am fond of it. That’s [...]
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We Have a Winner
The winner of the Ugly Slipper Contest, who will receive these beauties here . . . Prize Slippers . . . is Jeni! Jeni might strike some of you as a dark horse candidate for the slippers, since she snuck her entry in at the end, and she didn’t write a poem. But Jeni was [...]
A “Wow, Those Are Some Ugly Slippers” Contest!
I am not particularly discriminating in my nighttime/early morning attire. Indeed, what I wear to bed is often embarrassing. In the winter, for example, it usually involves red flannel pants with game on them — that is, deer, ducks, trout, and pheasants. (Yes, there is a story there, and no, I’m not going to tell [...]
Ruth’s Rules of Comedy #001
Giant shoes are always funny. A Fiber Trends Felt Clog in its unfelted state My favorite house slippers (chronicled here) are getting noticeably holey, so I’ve been spurred on to knit some new ones. So far, so gigantically good, though it’s clear that clog no. 1 used so much yarn that clog no. 2 will [...]
Back in the Saddle Again
The Middlebury cardigan is done but for the buttons. It’s a great relief to have it totally off the needles, as it seems like I’ve been knitting it for a long time (though it’s apparently only been since September). I’m immensely pleased with how it turned out. I’ll do a full finished object rundown with [...]
More of the Same
The good news I found some buttons that I think will work for my cardigan. I ordered them from Earthenwood Studios; you can look at them here. I chose the pill shape, the berryleaf pattern, and the amethyst color. I think the color is just the right purpley-brown to work with the Middlebury sweater. The [...]
Good News and Bad News
The good news Progress on the Middlebury sweater continues apace. I got one sleeve finished and sewn in, the other one about two-thirds knit, and I completed the button bands and collar, too. It’s looking mighty fine, if I do say so myself. Middlebury sweater with one sleeve The bad news I think the sleeve [...]
The Safety Pin Stage
Since I last posted, I’ve finished the back and left front of the Middlebury cardigan, so the time came to pin it together to see how it fits. These shots are courtesy of my new camera, a birthday gift from my parents. It has utterly transformed for the better my taking-pictures-of-knitwear process. It focuses! It [...]
Mid-Middlebury
I’ve been knitting away on my Middlebury sweater, which you may recall temporarily stumped me a while back with its tendency to scrunch up on the needles. I needed to figure out whether it would hold a lengthwise blocking or whether I had to make it longer to compensate for its desire to be scrunched [...]
Swatch-Sized Pieces
It’s been about a week since I blocked Frances, and this is all I have managed to do so far toward remedying the sleeve situation: The sleeve now looks like a murder victim. Should I have drawn a chalk line? To tell the truth, I also got most of one sleeve rehemmed, but then I [...]