So I’ve been talking about how close I am to getting back on the knitting game for weeks and weeks. While for the past two months I’ve knitted more than I had in the previous two or three months, until this last week, I still hadn’t been knitting much.

And then, this last week, I’m not sure what happened, but I got enough momentum on my projects ( Read more... )

So, once upon a time I had an idea for a knitting column were I’d write about a sweater, giving a brief description of a style, relevant techniques, and a construction method, but no pattern per se. Because I don’t follow patterns so much as elaborate on ideas, and I think it would be fun to read and a good inspiration for people who are ( Read more... )

I’ve hinted in the last couple of weeks that I’ve been knitting more. While usually the summer heat doesn’t deter me from knitting very much, between the extra-time writing, working a lot, and the heat I hadn’t knit much since the spring. While I’ve certainly been more obsessed with knitting in the past, I think I’m back.

Though I stopped/slowed ( Read more... )

In my last post about the latvian dreaming project (rav-link), I explained how to get from the cast on, to the gussets. Given that I’ve finally gotten past this, I have another post in this series for you.

If you’re doing this shoulders the way I am (dropped), with square armholes with underarm gussets, do what I’m doing. If you’re interested in ( Read more... )

Knitting camp got me back into the knitting, but I haven’t written about it in so long that I think it’s only fitting that I write a little bit about my current projects. Here they are:

1. Latvian Dreaming:
   • This is the project that I am, at least theoretically, leading a follow-the-leader knit-a-long on. But it’s the summer, and few people are ( Read more... )

I’m sorry for not posting when I got home or twittering from the road, but I seem to have survived the ordeal of the drive. I did the drive, which is about 520 miles, in almost exactly eight hours. Which means I averaged did the speed limit
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1. Franklin tried on my tychoish henry viii sweater.
   • I need to take such better pictures of my knitting.
2. I did pretty well in the contest, I got some hemp/wool yarn. The shawl I raffled off to support camp scholarships, did pretty well, and it went to Carol Anderson of Cottage Creations who is a great deal of fun.
3. There were great dirty jokes at the ( Read more... )

I don’t have a lot to report.

I knit a lot, that was really good. The party promises to be great tonight.

I got my 1000 Knitters Project portrait taken today. I’m somewhere in the 900s, and I’m within 20 of people like Meg (and Cully!) Swansen, Medrith Glover, and Emily-freaking-Ocker. How cool is that.

I’m also going to be in the project as ( Read more... )

Knitting camp. Where to start.

This is an analogy that will only make sense to the morris dancers in the audience, but it’s sort of like an ale, with more yarn and less dancing (of course) and much less singing. It’s the lack of singing that I find most disconcerting actually.

This is the session that has history, out of all the sessions of this ( Read more... )

There’s a Catholic church not very far from our house, that has a very good rummage sale every year. Actually there are, I think at least three Catholic churches that are closer, but thats a geographical quirk, and is neither here nor there.

So, of course, we went.

We have the theory, that for the best rummage sale experience, go to rummage sales ( Read more... )