…and a lot of other stuff, too!
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, but I’ve felt like I have not much to say! I’ve just been knitting away on my braided cabled scarf. A couple of traffic jams this week have caused my DH to lose a few more hairs, and we both ruptured our eardrums listening to my 4 year…
Here’s the latest photo of my Fancy Cabled Braided Scarf. Yes, it’s my own design, based on some common stitch patterns and modified to get a completely mirrored design on either side of the cable. Since the poncho is too big to be my take-along project, this one has taken its place; and I do…
It’s been a while, so here she is. Alison. Poor, poor Alison. Regular readers might remember that I’ve been working on this poncho on and off since August of 2005, and it just refuses to be done. It’s getting little by little, bigger and WAY heavier, and each 50g ball is now producing slightly less…
I just got these lovely stitch markers in the mail today, and had to share! I saw an ad in one of the knitting magazines (forget which one… I grabbed everything off the magazine rack last week!) for Debra’s Garden, and I just had to order right away! I do love the idea of having…
I just got the coolest thing from Knitpicks today! It’s the Row Counter Plus, by Nancy’s Knit Knacks. I’ve been waiting for weeks for it to become available, as I saw it last month in the last Knitpicks catalog. The Row Counter Plus allows you to keep track of three separate things, so if you’re…
I’ve been playing with this pattern for a while now, as in, for about a year and a half or so! I started it when I was a beginning knitter, but it is only now that I was able to figure this out so that the two sides on either side of the cable mirrored…