A sweater-vest in a week?

Can I do it?
Almost done with the back…

 [This is Filatura Lanarota Chaco that I bought at Rhinebeck (basically, good old fashion four ply worsted wool).  The pattern is the Classic Camel Vest from Men in Knits.  I'm knitting it at a slightly smaller gauge, 5.5 spi instead of 5 because I love the fabric I'm [...]

Hurray!

My Ravelry Scarf Exchange Scarf is done and will be mailed tomorrow!

[It's my favorite feather & fan on US6s with ArtYarns Regal Silk. Really lovely yarn, nice and drapey scarf.]
I started the vest for my stepfather (can I finish it in 10 days? We’ll see!).
I have a four day weekend!
I’m going to [...]

When bloggers go bad.

Well, mostly, when bloggers continually forget to take pictures of their works in progress, I suppose.
That’s when they make bad mock-ups of stuff in Paint and share it with their readers.

Which color do you like better for this sweater? It’s Jess’ Gansey, available online but part of Interweave Knit’s Winter [...]

FO: Bye, Second Sock Syndrome!

Hair’s looking a little better.
I knit the first Elegant Gauntlet in less than a week. I immediately cast on for the second one, knit about four inches on it… and then put it aside. For two months. [Oddly enough, when I knit my first pair of Elegant Gauntlets back in2004, I did the [...]

Hair Dye: 1, Jessie: 0

I’ve been dying my hair shades of red for years. Some have looked better than others, but I’ve never really had a problem with the dye looking un-natural - in fact, people I’ve met since I starting dying my hair consistently think that it’s my natural hair color most of the time.
That is, until [...]

It’s all scarves, all the time.

Look! It’s scarf weather!  Scarves have emerged from the box in the closet and now I wear them everyday!  Lovely!
And I’m knitting more.
Not for myself.  These are my three current WIP scarves.

Dan’s Harry-Potter-Inspired monster of a scarf - four skeins of Malabrigo, one US8 16″ circ, and a lot of [...]

Planning ahead…

Bacon
Though it does sound like a blast, no, I didn’t cook up two pounds of bacon, put them on a plate, get my spinning wheel out, and then kindly ask the boyfriend to feed it to me, slice by slice, as I spun, as to not get bacon grease on the wool. Though the [...]

Sometimes I spin too. And make bacon.

Lovely wool Lindsey sent me in a care package in September. She sent me 2 two ounce bumps, but somehow in moving the balls of roving from my yarn basket to the wheel, I’ve misplaced the other one. I’m still getting the hang of this spinning thing, so [...]

Hello Out There!

Amongst other non-knitting news, I turned twenty-five last week, and am currently finding myself completely immersed in a quarter-life crisis.  What am I doing with my life?  Am I where I want to be?  What, exactly, do I want to be when I grow up?  Am I grown up?
This is what the inside of my [...]