Emerald Progress.

I’ve made it to my favorite part of a seamless raglan sweater – the giant row of doom!

Hello, bad-dye job.
 
Usually, I knit both sleeves first, so when I get to this point at the body, both sleeves are already ready to go. I don’t know why I veered away from that this time. [...]

What else do you do… other than knit?

I quilt. I haven’t done it in what feels like years though (other than a few commissioned pillows along the way).
But I’ve been playing with fabric and layouts for what will be Lindsey & Ben’s wedding quilt/chuppah. It’s going to be 60″ x 60,” which I read is the traditional size for a [...]

This is how I feel.

 
That blue blob of yarn is a big ball of Blue Sky Alpaca Dyed Cotton that I decided I wanted to roll into a ball from a hank on my commute Sunday morning. It got tangled and knotted (of course) and instead of taking the normal ten minutes it would have taken at home, [...]

Summer Camp Care Package!

I’ve avoided signing up for the plethora of secret pal swaps that float around the knitting blog world for a few years – I did Secret Pal 2? 3? three years ago, and I got burned. I did have a Secret Pal Angel come in towards the end, but it always left a bad [...]

Sometimes you need a little change of scenery.

Boat.
 
 

Dunes.
 

Wet, sandy feet.
 
 

Ocean was too fast for me.
 
 

Emerald sleeve in progress.
 
 

Emerald Beginnings, Queen Elizabeth, and Purple Veggies.

I went to Boston last weekend for my best friend’s engagement party. I got to visit with my favorite cat:

Who was pretending not to know who I was.
There were cheese plates

 
And purple cauliflower
 

And I don’t have any pictures of the actual party because I’m [...]

OK, seriously? I have a problem.

I’m sorry that all I talk about in this blog is Paton’s Soy Wool Stripes. But I haven’t been knitting very much lately – partly because Dan’s sweater is all seed stitch sleeves all the time and partly because I’ve been reading.
 

This is what it looks like. Sad [...]

Real post to come…

but look!

New SWS colors! Woohoo! Pretty! I want them all. I’m going to have to start stalking the yarn section of my local craft store tomorrow.
I think it would be awesome to try over-dying the Natural Slate – ’cause of the graduations of greys as the base, I wonder if I could [...]