The walking (knitting) wounded.

“Why, yes, I have been knitting socks a lot lately. What gave that away?”
A little old crack in my index finger isn’t going to keep me from knitting, nosirree. Band-Aids to the rescue. Last time this happened was last year during either Sock Wars or Summer of Socks. It’s those teeny tiny pointy needles…
Them thar [...]

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WIP inventory

Now, I’m not normally too bad about having a bunch of WIPs (works in progress for the uninitiated) around. I generally have 2 or 3 at the most. So, let’s take a quick WIP inventory, shall we?

Deep V Sweater (from Erika Knight’s Classic Knits) – started in January
Kelly’s Kupkake (prototype made at the end of [...]

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A zombie no more!

Remember way back, oh, 4-5 months ago when I was posting about Sock Wars III? You may also remember that it ended pretty early with a whole lot of sock warriors remaining to play, and many continued on (it’s still winding down, with the last 10 or so warriors alive and kicking… er, knitting). I [...]

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Back from camp (and man, I’m tired)

As expected, I slightly overestimated the amount of knitting time I would have this past weekend. However, I did meet my goal of finishing the Baby Fern Rib Socks (Ravelry link, login required). I was determined to stay up Saturday night until they were done, including weaving in ends (around 11:00 PM, maybe a little [...]

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Off to camp!

Well, it’s time to head off for a nice, relaxing weekend away at camp. It’s the same camp I went to for one week every summer from about 5th grade through 11th grade, with my 3 closest friends. The trip this weekend is for Wild Women Weekend, which a women’s retreat. There’s the “wild” stuff [...]

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Baby Fern Rib Socks pattern released today!

I’m so excited to announce that I’ve finally released the Baby Fern Rib Socks pattern today! I’ve done quite a bit of tinkering with it since my first draft. First, I had two knitting friends test-knit for me (thanks again Bridget and Sandie!), then, after incorporating their comments, I decided to write a second version [...]

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Helical Stripe Baby Hat Revisited

Just a quickie post today — I tweaked the Helical Stripe Baby Hat pattern just slightly, and uploaded a revised PDF file.

Lemme guess… you can’t tell the difference between this one and the previous one, can you? That’s the beauty of helical stripes. The only change was instead of dividing up the hat into 5 [...]

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What’s been keeping me from knitting

OK, it seems like it’s been forever, but it’s actually only been since about Labor Day that my knitting time has been cut back severely. So, what’s been keeping me from knitting as much? Well, first of all, I haven’t been taking my knitting along to work lately (lunchtime knitting) because things have been too [...]

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Charity FO: Helical Stripe Baby Hat

Earlier this summer, Grumperina featured a pair of helical stripe socks on her blog. I was really intrigued by the concept and sort of filed it away in my brain for a while. Fast-forward to this past Friday, when I picked up several pastel shades of Italian cotton yarn (Filatura di Crosa’s Porto Cervo) that [...]

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Another Fla-Vor-Ice Cozy and more socks (how shocking)

Just when I thought maybe I was done knitting Fla-Vor-Ice Cozies, my coworker Brian returned from vacation and witnessed Rose and I using ours. Of course, his preschool-aged daughter has the same intolerance for cold hands while enjoying a frozen treat… so I said I would make one for her. I am pleased to present [...]

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