So, I finished Fanødugen last night, and I pinned it out today in celebration of my first real weekend. (Ravelry linkI think it took about 185 yards, assuming ~3000 ypp for a 2/12 laceweight wool ( Read more... )

While my cousin was in town for the wedding back in January, she fell in love with my Evangeline mitts (ravelry link). I remembered the mitts being a fun, quick project, so I volunteered. I had her rank her five favorite Malabrigo colors, and then I found the cheapest online source for one skein of Malabrigo + shipping. I bought a skein in Apple ( Read more... )

So I blocked the Harebell Fichu. I'll be really interested to see how it wears. My goal in knitting this is to have a little bit of lace to tuck underneath the collar of a suit jacket, so that in interviews and such, when they look at my resume and see that it says knitting under interests and they go "Oh, you knit? Like, baby blankets?"... I ( Read more... )

Now that my week of crazy-heavy workload is over (complete with a bonus -- a 10-page paper for that group presentation that we forgot about until it was ALMOST too late), I've decided to take it a bit easy today ( Read more... )