My relationship with the cardigan currently on the needles is getting hot and heavy, if only because I just attached the sleeves to the body and so have a giant lump of wool on my lap in the middle of summer. Said cardigan is decisively into the ugly stage, where it’s vaguely misshapen and the stitches are uneven and there are gaping holes in the ( Read more... )

The print o' the wave stole for my mother has actually been done for a month now - I blocked it over Thanksgiving - but I'm only now getting around to photographing it. It turns out that taking flattering photos of large objects? Is surprisingly difficult. I have a new sympathy for photographers.


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Am knitting 560 stitches in laceweight yarn onto the edge of a stole. In silk. (Silk, at least thin silk, tangles all by itself into impossible Gordian knots if you turn your back on it for a second. I didn't know this before I plunged into a project with it. Learning is fun and painful ( Read more... )