Knitting Books

Periodically, someone will give me a knitting book, or I’ll win one in a yarn expo raffle, or I’ll buy one myself. I mean, I like knitting, I like books– what could go wrong, right? It’s well-intentioned, and I do enjoy the books, but here’s the thing: I don’t usually keep them. That’s true of […]

Socks and More Socks

Yesterday while John was driving, I finished the Oliver socks I’ve been knitting for my Dad: Finishing yesterday officially means these socks took less than 2 weeks to knit. I cast on on October 28th, and bound off the second toe last night. And cast on for a pair of cabled lace socks, maybe for […]

Knitterly goodness and trip photos

I have few/no photos of knitty things from my trip because of the camera breakage, but I’ll show you what I took photos of anyway. This is reason #1 why I won’t fly Air Canada again: That’s my vinyl sign, looking for all the world like an airplane ran it over. I discovered this after […]