Chris is my new best friend.  I heart Chris.  Look what was waiting in my mailbox: I saw it and thought . .  . that’s a really big package for a two socks’ worth of yarn.  Look what she sent me: That’s.  Wow.  That’s a bunch of nice yarn.  There’s lots of Regia, there–you can […]

Three small things: Soon-to-be-felted Booties for a soon-to-be-born baby: I don’t actually know the baby’s gender, but I figured this was a pretty blue for a child who is likely to have blue eyes.  And the whole "so precious we must dress you to blend in with the sky so the evil spirits don’t snatch […]

This little tableau earned me some good-natured razzing.  I matched my knitting again, as I am want to do, when we went out to knit in public last night.  See, Tara gave me that bag for my birthday, and I was already knitting both of those pairs of socks: the multi-colored socks are my KPPPM […]

Updatey-goodness: Brigid’s Samhain photos rock.  And they provide evidence of ruana-finishing fun.  Last weekend, while many of the Knitters Review folks were retreating to the not-terribly-far-away Graves Mountain, we assorted nuts went to the wilds near Charlottesville to celebrate Samhain; the Celtic New Year and the original holiday upon which Halloween was founded.  This was […]

It’s all about the good, the bad, and the goopy around here. Let me start with the good.  The Socktoberfest socks are lovely to knit, and the finished sock is comfortable and warm. The bad is that we apparently have some sort of appliance-related curse.  First, our furnace died on Thursday.  And though we know […]

I’m loving Socktoberfest!  I’m making Grumperina’s Jaywalker socks.  Because how could I not?  And I’m making them out of some lovely KPPPM.  (That little blorble in the zig-zag up there is a fold in the sock, not a crazy-go-nuts sort of error)  I just started turning the heel on this first of the pair, and […]

I finished knitting up all of the pieces of Rose Friday night, and expected that I wouldn’t have much of a chance to assemble and block the sweater because this was to be the weekend of major grouting on the kitchen floor, about 75 percent of which is laid, with the rest waiting for us […]