Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting on November 28, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I know I shouldn’t complain, but I have done so much knitting on this sweater that I should have two Alices. The entire body, done twice. One sleeve, done twice. Okay, the other sleeve was only inches in before I frogged it and redid it, but almost twice. Still, it was worth it.
The only thing [...]
Posted in Knitting, Work in Progress on November 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I am thisclose to being finished with Alice. I just have the cap on the sleeve to finish knitting, sew the seam on the sleeve, sew the cap to the sweater, then wash/dry. For the past few days I’ve been trying to do at least a couple of inches a day on the sleeve, adding [...]
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, Patterns, Weather Complaint on November 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Even though I finished the Cloud Bolero first, I did start Tuscany (from No Sheep for You by Amy Singer) first this past June, so I’ll start with that:
The yarn is Bernat Satin in Bordeaux, 100% acrylic, and a worsted weight. So I did 8 repeats instead of 11. It’s 62″ wide and 22″ long, [...]
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting on November 16, 2007 | No Comments »
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a ballerina. That probably does not come as a great surprise. Most girls wanted to be ballerinas. For me, it wasn’t so much about the pink, or the outfits, but just the gracefulness of the dancers, and how they could leap into the air and [...]
Posted in Blog, Knitting on November 8, 2007 | No Comments »
When I was in junior high, age 14 or so, my absolute favourite long-sleeved shirt was a store-bought, knit shirt in oatmeal with occasional stripes of purple, green and gold. I’m not sure how strange that sounds written, but the green was deep, as was the purple, like an eggplant. It was loose-fitting, and had [...]
Posted in Blog, Finished Objects, Knitting on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s funny to come back from not posting in a while to see that today, I was three views short of having the most-ever views on my blog. Unfortunately I can’t see the source; it’s from a forum that I can’t get into without a membership, in a language that I don’t know (I think [...]
