A sad day for knitting.

I decided to knit the Icarus shawl after searching through a bunch of old Interweave Knits issues.  Since I cast off on the Swallowtail shawl, I really wanted to knit another shawl.  I had tried to start Ene’s Scarf from Scarf Style while I was traveling last week, but casting on 375 stitches? Not something [...]

FO: Swallowtail Shawl.

It’s official: I’m addicted to lace.  It’s so much fun to knit - always interesting, the pattern slowly evolving and changing as you go.  The thin yarn on larger needles makes the knitting fly, and it grows swiftly.  But the best part?  Once you’ve cast off, and soaked it in a nice wool-wash bath, you [...]

One week…

I cast off Sunday night.

And blocked it till Monday morning.

I unpinned it at 7am, admired the nupps, tried it on in the bathroom and gazed at myself in the mirror, and then went to work, and got on a plane to LA.
And just got back last night.
So more pictures will be coming [...]

Bye, Jeanie.

As you may remember, I decided to turn some lovely Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock into Jeanie.
After about two weeks of knitting, and a few mistakes, I got frustrated and didn’t love how it was coming out, so I pulled out my old issues of Interweave Knits and poured over them, looking for inspiration.
And I found [...]

Too much.

Last week, I went up to Massachusetts to visit Lindsey, and we had a yarn-filled weekend.

We drove two hours in the pouring rain to WEBS.  It was amazing and overwhelming.  We ran into Adrian of HelloYarn and Ravelry’s Jess (along with a group of their friends), walking out as we walked in.

We wandered the aisles, [...]