01/03 2012

Here is Catkin, 2 rows shy of casting off. I have no idea how big the thing is, it’s jammed so tightly on the needles. I guess we’ll see. *girds self* Filed under: Knitting

01/02 2012

Hey all you Words With Friends addicts out there! I’ve been asked in a few of my games how I score so many points, so I thought for my first post of the New Year I would share some of … Continue…

01/01 2012

I should note that I did not have enough of the orange (my color B) to finish and ended up getting a second skein of it. I was literally 9 rows short. It might have been enough if I didn’t…

12/31 2011

[ravelry] What a productive year 2011 was! So many hats! I did quite a lot of sewing, too, evidently. Next year I hope to make several pairs of socks, to replace the 3 pairs I have lost so far this ……

12/27 2011

12/25 2011

It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks around here. I’ve been knitting and baking and generally making merry, which culminated today for our winter festival of choice, Christmas. It’s been a pretty…

12/25 2011

12/24 2011

Feeling a little “meh” about this one. Maybe I should’ve waited until I’d had a full night’s sleep before trying to assemble the berries and leaves; they are kind of wonky. Ah well.

12/22 2011
12/18 2011

12/16 2011

Another fucking hat for my mom. The first one shrank in the wash. GAAAAHHH!

12/15 2011

A couple of evenings ago, I walked into the kitchen at 6:30 without a single idea for what to make for dinner. All the meat was frozen, I was tired from my long day of kid wrangling, and the sink …

12/14 2011

It’s done, and about damn time, too. This hat would’ve been done a lot sooner if I didn’t have to knit it so many times. I hope my mom likes it. Here’s how I did it: Earflaps (make 2) Cast …

12/12 2011

So, the hell that is Christmas gift knitting continues as I try, unsuccessfully, to mash two popular knitting patterns together. The idea is to take the bottom of Thorpe and hook it on to the…

12/12 2011

I am combining the bottom of Thorpe with the YarnHarlot’s Unoriginal Hat. Hopefully I have enough yarn to do this.

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2 reknits later, I have plenty of yarn, but the cabled…

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