…and a lot of other stuff, too!
This once-a-month blogging thing has got to stop. Yes, I miss it. But, I have no idea why I haven’t been blogging. Lately, though, it has seemed overwhelming to do. Yet, here I am… I have a lot to tell you about my knitting world lately. For some reason, I got it in my head…
When I first read on Eskimimi’s Blog about Blog Week, and saw her proposed topic for Day 3, “One Great Knitter,” my mind gave me the answer in just one word. Elizabeth. Even when I wasn’t yet a knitter, when I would crochet from a pattern with a specific gauge as for a baby sweater,…
Yay! I figured it out! Actually, I feel pretty stupid. Elizabeth Zimmermann is always right, and I should just trust her, that even though her patterns aren’t always the most specific, hand-holding things in the world, I should just trust that they’re right. It’s all about the short rows. Most of the time, a pattern…
Today we had to leave work early because our kids’ school closed early. Why? Because of this: It started snowing a little late this morning for schools to be closed for the day, but by the time we were ready to leave for school and work the driveway had to be shoveled first. So we…
Not much, is it? Well… I should have been photographing along the way with my various experiments all week, but it was hot and I was lazy, and so… well… I didn’t. It wouldn’t have made for exciting reading anyway. What you see here is the beginnings of my EZ February Baby Sweater. The pattern…