I spent basically the whole day yesterday obsessively working on a new knitting project: the riverrun scarf. I purchased some chroma fingering weight yarn a while back from knitpicks, intending…
Monkey Socks II
So, we all know that I’m not a huge fan of variegated yarn, but I loved the way it knitted up in my Monkey Socks and that was enough to…
Jaywalker Part Deux
I loved the Jaywalkers that I made my mom so much that I decided I had to make a pair for myself. Of course, since they were for me I…
Jaywalkers
The knitters on Ravelry.com have knitted Grumperina’s Jaywalker socks 8,570 times… and I can see why! I love, love, LOVE the pattern. It is super easy to memorize and is…
Yarn!
New sock yarn from Knit Picks!
new sock yarn = new socks!
Knit Picks sent me a horrible email announcing that a ton of discontinued colors of sock yarn were on sale and blatantly reminded me that sock yarn does not count…
The truth about Scott’s hat
So, I have owed my brother a rasta-style hat for at least two years now, I think it might actually be closer to three. I was really truly going to…
Pie in the Sky?
I am in love with Knit Picks new featured pattern: the Jacquard Vest! OK, here: I’m going to rip off their photo, may my IP prof. forgive me: I really…
Life
I was totally depressed this afternoon so I decided to ignore my homework and knit. So, I tried to work on the sleeves of the hexacomb cardigan only to get…
Baby’s First Russian Join!
I just did my very first (successful) Russian Join to join the new ball of yarn in my lace ribbon scarf. Yay! It is beautiful. Completely invisible! My new favorite!…