Quick knitting update: I finished hint #3 yesterday while at my dad’s house. John and I went over for brunch and hung out all day with Dad and Kim, lounging around the back porch in the sun, making goofy faces at the dogs, watching a movie, and generally having a good time.
SotSiii: Hint 2 finished
I finished Hint #2 early last week: I’ve started on hint #3 as of yesterday. Meanwhile, last week I also went to WEBS, which was awesome and magnificent, and I bought… well, I didn’t buy too much– just enough to feel like I’d indulged myself. I should have probably picked up yarn-on-cone, but… anyway. Here […]
Frogged
I frogged the Magickal Earth Shawl. I was knitting it on size 3 needles. After 8 months of working on the edging (not consistently, mind you), I had 7 repeats of the edging pattern done. The edging calls for 48 repeats, which means I had one half of one side of the edging. It was […]
Back on the Knitterly Bandwagon
I had something of a knitter’s hiatus last month. Between family visits, the funeral, trying to start up some writing gigs, and travel, I just didn’t have the extra “oomph” needed to fiddle with strings and sticks for a while. In fact, I have had “finish kitty for swap” and “take photos of sweater” on […]
From Grandma’s House: A wheel
One of the items my grandmother left to me was a spinning wheel. It’s a “great wheel” (or walking wheel), slightly more than 3 feet across, and it has the wheel and a gear, but nothing else. The other day, I was able to bring it home in the Jeep– we have absolutely no idea […]