January 2012
3 posts
2011: My Knitting Year (As Is Tradition) →
[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 ……
Jan 1st
December 2011
14 posts
Ganomy the Third →
Dec 28th
Happy Holidays! →
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…
Dec 26th
Little itty bitty Santa →
Dec 25th
Xmas Pudding →
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.
Dec 24th
Big Foot Slippers →
Dec 23rd
Slippers for Rachel →
Dec 18th
Ganomy the Second →
Another fucking hat for my mom. The first one shrank in the wash. GAAAAHHH!
Dec 16th
Mild Veggie Curry →
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 …
Dec 15th
Leatherhead →
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 … …
Dec 14th
This Damn Hat is Cursed →
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…
Dec 12th
Unoriginal Thorpe →
I am combining the bottom of Thorpe with the YarnHarlot’s Unoriginal Hat. Hopefully I have enough yarn to do this. —12/11— 2 reknits later, I have plenty of yarn, but the cabled…
Dec 12th
GAH →
Bad knitting mojo stinks. I’ve cast on, almost finished, and frogged the same hat five times, and then, for a change of pace, I knit almost the entire outer sole of a felted clog on the wrong size…
Dec 7th
Hat for Grandma Uma →
Dec 5th