My sister’s on her way home, and I did manage to sneak in a little knitting time while she was here. This is (hopefully) the start of my cashmere wrist warmers. I’m designing the pattern, and I’m praying hopeful that the size will work out. I’ve done a lot of test knitting and frogging, so […]

Yeah!! After frogging my Green Gable back to the underarms and adding 4 extra rows, it now looks like it’s going to be a good fit. Phew!
But not much time for knitting this week, my sister is visiting me from Massachusetts, and I’ll be pretty busy.
I still need to get started on my cashmere […]

I finally got around to finishing my first dishcloth, using the Butterfly lace pattern and about 50 grams of Lion Cotton. I didn’t notice until after I’d finished, but one row of my butterflies has an extra set of wings. I’ll just blame it on DDT.

What’s wrong with this picture? This is my first (red) Green Gable, with my new (green) Green Gable sitting on top of it. WTF??? Do we see a slight sizing problem? I went to a conference in Phildelphia, and took along Green Gable. But unfortunately, I didn’t take along my first one for comparison. […]

I haven’t been doing a lot of knitting for the past few days for various reasons (too busy), but I’ve been doing some sample swatches while deciding what to do with my cashmere. I still think I’ll do wrist warmers of some sort, but I’ll probably make up a pattern and I’m still working out […]

Here’s my Alpaca With a Twist “Fino” purchase from yesterday (color is “ruby slippers”), along with my precious skein of Black Pearl Yarns 100% Cashmere, in colorway “Bamboo”, purchased from YarnBotanika. And oh, is it delicious. I think it will become a pair of wrist warmers. Either that or a neck warmer. Something to wear […]

Waist pack and Dish cloth Originally uploaded by Hither-n-Yarn.
I finished the waist pack I was making as a gift. I knitted it on size 7 needles, and used less than one skein of Lion Cotton. Having several skeins of this yarn, I also started my very first dishcloth - the […]

It’s a gorgeous fall day today. I replaced the grass in my (tiny) front yard with water-wise perennials in the spring, and made sure to include plants that would give lots of color late in the year. And they’re certainly doing that! It’s much more interesting than the grass was.
I picked up a lovely hank […]

Last night I worked on my Waist Pack for the Lonesome Skein KAL and cast on for another Green Gable (this time it’s actually green!). I’m planning to take Green Gable to Philadelphia with me next week, and I wanted to have it already cast on and at least have a few rows knitted before […]

There are some days ya just wanna scream, aren’t there? Especially when you have to rip out hours of knitting. (That never happens, does it?) But screaming is very theraputic. I ran across this cute little doll at Big Lots the other day. If you press her belly, she screams like this. I thought it […]