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Lexi seems quite pleased with a shawl of her own. I think this will also make it much easier for her to leave my Icarus alone (although she’s terribly adorable when she tries to wear it, in no small part because it’s so huge on her.) See? I told you she could pull off wearing [...]

Seriously, I finished the shawl. I even blocked it. It’s after 8 o’clock so the intended recipient is unavailable to model it. It’s past her bed time. Although it’s pretty heartening to hear, “That’s my beautiful shawl?” as I pin it to shape on the quilt. I think Lexi likes it. The yarn is handspun [...]

I did that. I also made donuts, fry bread and crullers because I’m so talented. The socks are really nothing special, I’m pretty boring as socks go. Pink merino handspun, size 1 dpns, and a few evenings. They are a little baggy, but soft and comfy. Updating the blog and fixing the archives was a [...]

On the bright side, being offline gave me plenty of time to start (and finish) a sweater for the girl-child. It’s a gray 4-ply spindle spun merino yarn, 5 stitches per inch. Mostly from the size 30″ child’s raglan pattern from “the knitter’s handy book of sweater patterns” by Ann Budd. I was sort of [...]

I’m making bun covers, no– not the kind that keep dinner rolls warm or are delicately crocheted dainties for a lady’s hair– the other kind. You know, the kind that cover training pants. I actually like making pilchers, soakers, training pant covers and so on– they are cute (come on, anything that goes on a [...]

I’m knitting the Icarus shawl from the Interweave Knits Summer 2006 issue. So far I’m nearing completion of the first part of the first graph. The yarn: Moorit Shetland fiber I bought through Little Barn that I spun up. I finally finished knitting Josey’s blanket and it’s waiting for me to seam the two panels [...]

Okay this is moderately knitting related– a video of me knitting a cabled scarf from chunky acrylic (mea culpa mea culpa yarn snobbery must be set aside due to extenuating circumstances) Yes that’s me knitting cables without a cable needle. It’s kind of boring so I put a kicky soundtrack to it and edited it [...]

Still wrestling with the hosting situation, there are so many things that I rely on my websites to do that it makes me really appreciative of them when they are down. Finally yarnporn is loaded and I think all the pages are working (I used the link checker, but have to go through with my [...]

Yes, progress– much more progress in length and width than I expected (the measure is near the right front meets sleeve angle.) I was a little worried that changing the gauge would alter the angle of the raglan shaping and cause all sorts of disasters, but just by good luck it seems to have had [...]

While perusing blogs I found Julsey (Peony Knits)and found myself obsessing over the capelet pattern that she shares. I like the shaping, I even like the color she used. I don’t like the yarn-over treatment of the raglan shaping and I don’t particularly like teeny garments in bulky. And I think that a bit of [...]