1. I can finally reveal what the mysterious “surprise” project is: a darling striped elephant that I knitted for my mom’s birthday. I’ll make a full post with all the…
The Rise and Fall of Cressida
Whoo hoo! Cruisin’ right along on Cressida. Hmmm… that seems kind of long. I still have one round of increases left and it is already longer than this whole section…
I HATE YOU VEST FROM HELL!!!
Off the blocking board: This vest was made for bizarro Pepper with a 40” chest. That, or it’s for real Pepper if I preferred about 8 inches of positive ease….
Starting Over
I finally frogged the cashmere arm cosy last night:I rolled the mess up into a center pull ball then, I made a lame attempt to swatch onto size 6 needles…
“Funny” Story
Until last night, all the cables (& four sets of needles) from my interchangeable needle set were in use and/or just chillin’ in my project bags. So, last night I…
Vest From Hell
OK, it’s official. The vest is from hell. What happened now? So, I started on the armhole shaping and got halfway through when I realized it was looking a little…
Bite me, bite me pillow!
Now that I have had a little time to calm down, I can talk about what happened with the bite me pillow from Domiknitrix. OK, so, the embroidery is really…
FRAK! $#@&!! FRAK!!!
I frakking broke my circular needles last night on the frakking vest!! I bent the needle all freaky and I snapped the needle tip right off the end of the…
Progress
I finished knitting the headband part of the Head Hugger last night, now I just need to make the flowers and I’ll be good to go. The band is a…
Casting On the Head Hugger
I’ve been working on my head hugger this weekend to the detriment of my other projects, but I’m already nearly half way finished. I bought the yarn before I left…