Taking up Knitting Needles
K, so a quick update then I promise I’ll write about something other than kidney stones. I am on flowmax now to try to use the force of my pee (totally not my words) to move it out. If it doesn’t move...
View ArticlePain, Knitting and Everything Else this Weekend
So yeah pain. Looks like the doc can’t see me till next Monday. Yeah me! I finished Aia’s hat this weekend. It’s imperfect but very cute. I love how this threat gave it a shaded pattern. I have a...
View Article17 Needles
So I’ve been reading the Stitch & Bitch book. Yay, instruction. I’ve decided to at least try and knit their teaching projects and first one is for a chunky scarf. It’s going to go to J....
View ArticleThings We Did
The holiday weekend was full of weird things. First, of course, came Thanksgiving. This holiday went like most except Aia decided to have a full on melt down which resulted in a spanking and a long...
View ArticleWoe: Good Things and Bad Things
Perhaps it’s just me. Good thing: My Dr. Who inspired scarf (my first modified design, not the actual dr. who knitting pattern) is going well. The Bad: My new laptop is dead…Dell is sending me another...
View ArticleWeaving Update: This and Me? We’re Like Friends Who Cut Each Other for S & G
I’m nearly halfway done with my first weaving project. It is not what you’d call pretty yet. The bulky yarn snags and fluffs in irritating ways. But I can now do five triangles an hour. Then I have to...
View ArticleThis Was Not the Hat I’m Looking For
For the first time in my short knitting career, I’ve changed up a pattern. I was following a pattern from Knitting Rules by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee when I notice the hat was for a man with the head of a...
View ArticleFloppy Hat Pattern
I started this hat using a pattern but it wasn’t working out. So I took what was almost a frogging mess and changed it to make a floppy hat! I used worsted weight yarn and size 10 needles. Cast On:...
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