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Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Finding the Yellow Brick Road

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I started this socks at the beginning of September, back in 2018. They've been on my needles and in my project tracker ever since. Now ...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

{On My Needles} The Logic of Cables

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These socks are one of the oldest WIPs in my project tracker. The cables are fiddly and the yarn is just thin enough to make it an extra ch...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Something Clicked With The Cabled Socks

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I'm not going to pretend to understand why, but when I picked up the Finding the Yellow Brick Road socks yesterday afternoon, the cab...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

The Worst Pair of Socks Ever

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I cast on for this pair of socks FIVE MONTHS AGO and I've been working on them fairly steadily the entire time. A normal pair of stocki...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Finally Casting On

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A year ago, or maybe it was two years ago, I bought yarn to knit a striped shawl. A couple of days ago, I finally picked a pattern and cast...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Slow, Slower, Slowest Socks

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I have three pairs of socks on my needles and they're all taking absolutely FOREVER.  From left to right, Smock Madness is slow f...
Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Yan at the Dollar Tree?

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The two Dollar Trees in my area with Crafter's Square aisles have both been stocking worsted weight acrylic. I was curious enough to bu...
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Sunday, December 29, 2019

Restful Rainbow Shawl

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Lion Brand's Shawl in a Ball is exactly the kind of yarn that appeals to me when I'm standing there in the craft store. The promise...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Procrastiknitting

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The plan was to knit a couple of ballband dishcloths for my sister's new kitchen. Three seemed like a good number, but they were quick ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

On My Needles in Mid-December

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2019 is coming to a close and I'm thinking/hoping that I might be able to get all of these projects finished and bound off before the n...
Tuesday, December 03, 2019

Things to Love About a Troublesome Shawl

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There are things to like about this shawl. I love the colors and the combination of stockinette and garter stitch ridges, which are the sam...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Look Before You Leap...Or Cast On

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I wanted another easy shawl on my needles so I dug into the bin of Hobby Lobby clearance yarn and cast on with this stuff. The colors are g...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Fall Knitting

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I've talked in the past about coordinating my yarn with the season. This time it was accidental -- I grabbed the skein of yarn to cast ...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Knitting in Portland

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Did I mention that I have a new shawl on my needles? It's a garter stitch triangle, using a skein of Shawl in a Ball that I picked up a...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Slow Blue Lace Socks

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It took me almost two months to slog my way through this pair of socks, despite the fact that I was actively knitting on them. I'd unde...
Wednesday, October 09, 2019

Caramel Me Away Shawl

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I needed something mindless on my needles so a few days ago I cast on with a cake of self striping acrylic from my Hobby Lobby clearance st...
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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Garter Stitch...

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It turns out that what I needed to get myself out of this knitting slump was an easy garter stitch triangle. I'm working from a cake ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

September Sock Knitting?

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I couldn't tell you why, but the blue lace socks are not going well. I pick them up and work on them every time we sit down to watch TV ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

I Have to Knit Cables Today?

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This was probably the worst "have to" of last week's Arbitrary August choices, which turned out to be no big deal at all. I...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Borealis Socks

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My sock blockers are hiding from me today and that might not be a bad thing. I didn't care for this combination of stripes while the so...