Amy Singer emailed me to let me know a yarn shop had reprinted the entirety of my tea cozy pattern in the "our free patterns" section of their website. They do have my name on it, plus "as featured in Knitty," and a link to the original page on Knitty (and with a link, I'm not sure why they felt the need to include all of the text). I sent them ( Read more... )

First, a great Pip story. Someone taught him the letter names of the keys on the piano. So on Christmas I played a couple of notes (all white keys) and asked him what note they were, and he identified them all correctly. Then I played a G-sharp/A-flat and asked him what that was. He said "aaaa..." and kind of trailed off, thought for a bit, and ( Read more... )

We were waiting somewhere, with me sitting with Wm on my lap while standing next to me was a man with a little boy about age 4. The guy was telling the kid that babies say RAAAR and that he'd better watch out, because he'd get his arm! And at first the kid was saying "no, daddy, babies don't say that" and the dad said "no, really, any minute now!" ( Read more... )

Doing the border on the shawl for kathrynt. It's handspun and not 100% consistent, so yardage and weight might not correspond all the way down the ball of yarn, but... I had 16 grams when I started the 9 row (including bind-off) border. I've done 6 rows, and I have 7 grams left. It *should* be enough to finish, albeit barely. But I find myself knitting ( Read more... )

Attn. Seattle foodies: Serious pie. has some darned good pizza-like food. And roasted beets with a bit of cheese, some julienned mint and not a whole lot else are darned yummy. And if they offer someting with the housemade salami, order it. Wm and I lunched with my mom and and her wee girlie. Wm was SO EXCITED by little L. He was just reaching and ( Read more... )

Got up this morning, kathrynt and the wee girlie came to fetch me and the little lad, and we headed off to shop at Madrona Fiber Arts Retreat. I'd have loved to take some of the classes, but it just wasn't going to happen this year what with the babies and all.

So! ( the haul )

* Baby update! Wm had his 4 month visit on Monday. Came in at 14 lb, 8.5 oz, a smidge under 25". That's 50th %ile for both. His nog's still around 75th. Another pound and he'll have doubled his birth weight ( Read more... )

So, in the back of my mind I know I've seen a double applied i-cord bind off kind of thing, where the two strands are twisted around each other. I think what you do is three rows of cord A connecting to the piece, three rows unconnected cord B, switch positions, 3 rows connected B 3 rows unconnected A, switch, etc. But I can't remember where I saw ( Read more... )

Not getting stuff done very quickly, but getting some stuff done...

Spinning: Managed to finish plying up the last of the stuff from the August Spunky Fiber Club shipment, just in time for the September stuff to arrive. I ended up with about 240 yards of worsted weight 2-ply that should self-stripe. The South African Fine wool is nice and soft, a ( Read more... )

I've been working on a sweater for wrog off and on for some time now (I'm doing it in blues rather than greys). I'm nearly done with the body, and it's pretty much a lap blanket at this point. It's Norwegian style colorwork, so the body is a big tube until you get to the neck, where you scoop out the front a bit and do a little back-and-forth. I just ( Read more... )