Jul 12 2008
I guess I get more time to knit than I thought. Baby has yet to make an appearance, so I’m not only finishing up the bag of projects in progress, but starting new ones.
But given that I’m working with a large looming event that will halt all knitting abruptly and I’m not keen to leave [...]
Jul 09 2008
It was a long time coming, but I finally made my very first chart.
My friend Zach (the lucky recipient of the summer toque) wondered if it would be possible for me to make a toque like Gabe’s toque in this Penny Arcade strip. I figured it could be done, and set about making a chart [...]
Jul 08 2008
Oh, the finished projects keep rolling out. Just a few more to wrap up, and I will be a happy Knitternaut…
This was by far my oldest un-finished project. It’s been in the bottom of the project bag since June 2006, and as such I’d completely forgotton what type of yarn I’d used and where I’d [...]
Jul 08 2008
After several aborted attempts to make legwarmers - bad patterns, bad choice of needles, bad stitch/yarn combos, everything! - I gave up and decided to make fingerless gloves instead.
I cast on Rachel Calado’s Symmetrical Braided Gauntlets pattern on Sunday afternoon, and by late Monday night they were done! I couldn’t belive how quickly they went:
This [...]
Jul 05 2008
Clearly it has been a while since I’ve posted. Well, bit of a funny story about that… I got pregnant. It’s been a little bit distracting.
At first I thought, “Awesome! I totally have free license to sit around and knit small cute things ALL THE TIME!” However, when I tried to put this into practice, [...]