Friday over my lunch hour I decided it would be a good idea to kick back with my feet up on my desk and listen to cartoons on my iPod while starting the next step on mebil's hat. In this step I had to change the ribbing from 4x4 to 8x8 and start adding in the black yarn, using this colourwork pattern I'd worked out on graph paper. (Rocket's sweater ( Read more... )

Ripping back a knitting project and then getting it back on the needle feels a little bit like surgery, only this time I don't have the luxury of being sedated during the process. :P ( Read more... )

Saturday night I was knitting in the car on the way south from Chicago, working on the last pattern row of Chart A of Traveling Woman, all excited about having gotten so far, and discovered a dropped stitch and a weird loop about halfway down the pattern ( Read more... )

So I knit this kidney with the intention of felting it. Said felting would be done by hand because I don't feel like hauling a pillowcase off a pillow to use in the machine, and our washing machine has enough problems without me filling it full of wool fuzz ( Read more... )

I am currently knitting the world's fugliest scarf. Also I seem to have messed up the last row and I now have an extra stitch. (I probably forgot to PSSO somewhere.)