The Vitamin D sweater is off the needles just in time to bring a little sunshine into the late fall. This sweet little cardigan was knit using only three skeins of PathWays Sock Yarn (colorway Rumplestilskin). It’s a great sweater weight for tossing over a simple t-shirt and jeans for anything from a quick trip…
Generally I dye solid or near solid or solid-ish yarns. There’s a good reason for this. I love intricate stitches. Cables, lace, nupps, you name it. I hold that a busy yarn muddles the things and often hides the effort put into these elaborate stitches. On the other hand – or foot as the case…
Before leaving on any trip the first thing I do is pack my knitting bag. My clothing gets shoved in the backpack in a matter of minutes, which explains a lot about why I often end up packing the wrong clothes for whatever weather we encounter, but the knitting gets special attention. This was to…
The past few week’s knitting has been devoted entirely to hands and feet projects. The two socks from the last post are each coming along nicely. Stalagmites from the Cookie A. book Knit.Sock.Love require concentration because of the intricate cables but I am thoroughly loving them. The DVD Socks are completely rocking the bright orange…
On my personal Facebook and Twitter profiles I include the description “reader of fat books”. Which is true. For several years I kept a link to my Goodreads shelf in the sidebar of my old blog. It’s no longer in the sidebar but if you’re on Goodreads you can find me as lostcityknits. I love…
During my early years as a knitter I both began knitting socks and attended the Taos Wool Festival. Driving home from New Mexico I decided I wanted to begin dyeing yarn. Now I’m combining the two loves of sock knitting and yarn dyeing into one great sock yarn, the new PathWays Sock Yarn. This 100%…
Early in my knitting career I asked a teacher at a workshop how to knit a sock heel without the gaping hole. She gave me a withering look and said it can’t be done. I was a newbie and needed to learn to accept things the way they were apparently. I’m not a newbie anymore…
I’m a fan of things that hold other things. A purse with sections and pockets will give me delight as I tuck my phone here, my reading glasses there, ink pens lined up in just the right place. Odd little tins of stitch markers and notions provide tremendous pleasure too. The same goes for my…
I’ve finally bound off the Chrysanthemum Mittens that I cast on for Hillarey last year for her birthday. She knows about them so there will be no surprise when pulls them out of her stocking next weekend. That’s okay right? I still have to weave in the tails and there aren’t many. My plan is…
How is it that when I put the newly finished sock on my right foot the incredibly warm wool sock on my left foot – the one that filled me with comfort from the foot up when I slipped them on early in the morning – is somehow not nearly as warm as the new…
