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  • Get Comfy!

    Comfy yarn in several colors

    Yesterday I received in the mail my first shipment of Comfy yarn from Knit Picks. Shown are the colors Pomegranate, Fedora, Planetarium, Cypress, and Blackberry. I haven’t swatched yet but the yarn feels yummy! I’m thinking of doing a knit version of the Babette Blanket with it but I am not sure yet.

    I have to say that my anticipation of this yarn was very high. I was especially looking forward to the introduction of a dark, rich purple. And I hate to say it, but I am a wee bit disappointed. Especially with the brown and the purple. Those two colors are SO dark that it’s almost hard to see what the colors are. They’re nearly black.Am I sounding whiney? I mean, I like it, but I don’t love it as much as I was so hoping I would. The blue, green and red shades are great. If only the brown and the purple were just a hair lighter…


    Got My Sock Wearin’ Shoes!

    Dr Marten Mary Jane with flowers

    Ok, now it’s official that I have to learn to make socks! I just found the perfect shoes for showing them off. They’re Dr. Martens Mary Janes and I am more excited than ever about learning to make socks now. Only problem is that with my brace my foot is a little wide, and so I will need to go to a shoe repair shop and have them put an extension on the strap.

    I got a new sock book, too… but more on that tomorrow.

  • Bowie Borders Knitting Meetup

    2:00 p.m.

    4420 Mitchellville Road
    Bowie, MD 20716
    Phone: 301.352.5560

  • Hey, Bud! You’re Crowding the Shot!

    boy smiles with goofy grin, posing next to afghan in progress


    It’s just another Saturday night at the homestead! I decided it’s been a while since I photographed the Brown Ripple Afghan, so I thought I’d do an update. Sir Goofnut, aka my 6-year-old son, decided that he needed to get in on the action. I laid the blanket out on the floor last weekend, and the consensus was that it was about half done. Sigh. I might make it a wee bit smaller, because I am anxious for Miss Z. to receive it. So I’ve been knitting a lot this weekend, trying to catch up. Unfortunately I am on the stripe that is from one of my lesser favorite yarns in the blanket, in that it is so much slipperier than the others. Thankfully that stripe is almost done.

    So I’ve been knitting and listening to podcasts this weekend. The weather is good for it; it’s the end of March but temps were still below freezing this morning. Last night I listened to Kelley Petkun interview Janet Szabo on the Knit Picks Podcast. Then tonight, I was thrilled to learn that there is a new episode of Cast On available, and guess what??!!?? It’s all about HATS! Hats are my most favorite thing in the world to knit. In fact, I can’t wait to get done with this blanket so I can knit one! It’s been too long.

    Anyway, back to the pointy sticks! It’s a great night, indeed.

  • Another eBay Find

    Tudor roses book cover

    Yay! I scored another one on eBay! This time it was Alice Starmore’s Tudor Roses. Now, I’m not a huge fan of Starmore in general, and I know there is some controversy about her and her designs, but I just love the designs in this particular book I know the sweaters are not exactly shapely and all that, but I do love the colors. Of course the patterns are for someone a wee bit smaller than I am. I will need to figure out how to knit the right size for me. Someday. For now, I’m busy admiring the pretty pictures. 🙂

  • Calo-what?

    Calorimetry headband in progress


    So I couldn’t help it. I had to take a sanity break from my big brown afghan. I decided to cast on for a Calorimetry headband, just to give myself something new to stare at for a day or two. Now I know why so many people have made them. They’re a quick knit, and as soon as you figure out what’s happening with the short rows, it’s very easy to do.

    I tend to go a long time between haircuts and my bangs are always in my eyes. I have trouble with traditional plastic hair bands like you can buy in drug stores and accessory shops, because they’re always a smidge too small for my fat head and they squeeze my brain and give me a headache. Regular stretchy cloth ones are also no good if they’re equally thick all the way around, because they won’t stay secured at the back and bottom of my head.

    So the short row design of this one seems like just the thing. I’m doing this one as written so I can see how close I came to getting the size right, but then my very next one will be an in the round version with no finishing, once I’ve figured out the sizing. These can get addictive! Must finish and get back to the blanket.

    Ciao!

  • Knitty Linked to me!!

    I got a little surprise today! Knitty.com, in this issue’s Yosemite pattern, linked back to my tutorial on Magic Loop. How cool is that?? Many thanks to the pattern author.

    Unfortunately, the way I found out about it was that one of those knitting spam sites had confiscated the contents of this issue of Knitty, which then caused a pingback notice to me. This particular site was in French, except for the content that was cut and pasted from Knitty. Guess I’ll be notifying the editors so they can take appropriate action.

    Of course, I hadn’t checked my Magic Loop Page since before updating my layout a couple weeks ago, and some of the images were too large to fit properly, so I went quick and resized them. Hopefully all should be ok now.

    No news this week on the blanket, really. Still knitting away. Happy Easter to all who celebrate!