One back down, two fronts and two sleeves to go.

Dan’s Aran.
I’ve finished the back of Dan’s Aran! Hurray!
I immediately cast on for the first front, so I didn’t lose interest. Even though my deadline for this sweater project is Thanksgiving. It’s nice to have some leeway.

I’m knitting this at a slightly larger size than the largest size the pattern has. Basically, [...]

Skein = Back = Ball

Random “I want to knit this!” moment
I never really wanted to stop playing dress up, and I’ve always loved costumes and such. Which probably explains why I want to knit this princess hat from Vickie Howell’s “New Knits on the Block” book so much. Oh! A felted princess hat! How cool is that! [...]

FO: Hand-Dyed Feather and Fan Scarf

Feather and Fan scarf is done!

Extreme Close-Up.
Very easy. I cast on 36 sts, and dove in. It knit up really fast, and I was surprised by the amount of length I got out of a single skein (I should have planned a bit better with that, but this was all so off the cuff).
I finished [...]

I like yarn.

I have a serious yarn problem. But who doesn’t?
Hand-Dying Experiments.
I’ve been dying yarn over the past few days, and am very happy with my results.

This is on Paton’s Classic Merino, using Wilton’s Icing Dyes. It’s my attempt at self-striping yarn, and it kind of succeeded, as can be seen in this feather and [...]

One sweater: down.

I’ve been working on a lot of sweater projects lately. I finished one today.

Glampyre’s One Skein Wonder. Took three skeins of yarn (two of Filatura di Crossa Print 127, a cool self striping yarn that rotates solid and variegated.) I knit until that yarn was exhausted, then used a skein of Mission [...]

Stress Makes Me Knit.

I did most of this yesterday. Including swatching, measuring, and math. And going to work and having a job interview. Sometimes life just throws too much stuff at you.
This was once my Bulky Mini-Cardigan from Stefanie Japel’s Fitted Knits. Though I loved the sweater to death, loved the increases, the colors, [...]

Two sweater updates.

I’m knitting fourteen million sweaters in progress.  Here are two of them.

This is Jack’s Aran Cardigan, from Men In Knits.  It’s knit out of Cascade Eco-Wool, in a teal color.  I’m using US9s, and it’s knitting up suprisingly quickly for a huge aran cardigan.  I love how it is knitting up, the Eco-Wool is suprisingly [...]

Mmm.. Boston yarn.

I spent a day in Boston with my best friend before she and her fiance ran away to Paris to frolic in the Louvre and eat a lot of cheese. Or something like that.
We woke up at 9.30, and were on the T and in Harvard Square before we knew it. After a [...]