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Not much to say about these socks, other than I could have used a better yarn, in a better colorway, and planned my knitting a little better. Oh, and the heels are very very pointy. I still have no clue as to why I bought that yarn in the first place. None. At least they [...]

At least pictures going back to mid-2007 thus far. I have much more to do. And some pictures that appear to have not made the transfer, but most (at least until Jan 2006) seem to be alive and well. And I’ve been knitting! Possibly the ugliest socks I’ve made to date. The yarn is Lion [...]

There was a time when it took less than an hour to make Lexi a pair of socks. Baby feet are that small. Now she’s a big girl, and at the end of this summer she’ll be a whopping 5 years old. Now it takes a dedicated evening to come up with almost a pair [...]

My nephew requested not one, but two knit items. Requested. That’s cool stuff right there, having a last minute knit request from a teenager. Of course we can’t do anything that isn’t video game related, he wants a hat and bag like Link’s from Legend of Zelda. I have the bag finished. The hat may [...]

The knitted doily mandala. I think it’s pretty but the sun ray effect disturbs me just a little, the offset of the rays seems like they should be more a little more pronounced. I do like the overall look of it though. Grafting the join doesn’t leave it completely seamless (I expected that) but it’s [...]

My first knitting project was a bag. I was 23. I had just learned how to knit and wanted to knit myself a pretty handbag. I did. It had yarn overs. It had beads. It was a vintage pattern from a friends ancient Godey’s magazine and it told me to turn at the end of [...]

I’m going to propose that we stop referring to round lacy things as doilies and start calling them knit or crochet mandalas. I like the way that sounds. Doily just doesn’t cut it for me, it doesn’t sound right, it sounds like a frippery. Mandala, on the other hand is fitting. I don’t meditate while [...]

I had my first day of my first class today. The very not-so-intimidating BUS105. Classes are through live chat sessions, and scheduled on central standard time. I’m pacific standard time, so I figured out that a 10 am class would actually be 8 am for me. Woke up an hour early, started the day right, [...]

I’m still working on the mohair shawl after rethreading the needles through all those open stitches. I am just trying to use up the last of that yarn. It’s not the last though, there’s more somewhere. It lurks, waiting in the dark recesses of the closet, silently mocking me. The shawl is just miles and [...]

Law of mohair #142: Intentional ripping of mohair from knitted article in progress will be prevented by the innate ability of mohair to suck and tangle into itself. Law of mohair #143 All mohair articles larger than 2 cubic inches knitted on metal circular needles will reject said needles when the article is in a [...]