Oct 28th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
I am in a bit of a rut with my spinning (and knit and crochet).
I too remember why my pictures on my blog were not so hot last winter — it was because it is dark until after I forget in the dawn and before I am back at night. This was the sky [...]
Oct 25th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
Sorry to have been neglecting you and the blog for the final week. I make only got back from the lovely city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. I didn’t get anything much done on my fibrous pursuits, but imagine my fervor to pass two blocks up a hill from my hotel and see this:
Yes, [...]
Oct 15th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
In 2 more sleeps I will be on my way to New York City, to the wait and generous spare bed of my knitting pal Rebecca, then on Saturday it will be off to the New York Sheep and Wool festival, aka Rhinebeck. Wait, there’s something lacking in that description, what was it…oh yeah: WOO [...]
Oct 2nd, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
I started knitting this scarf while we were in Kansas in August. The yarn came from the Newton Beadery in Newton Kansas. I couldn’t tell it was a yarn shop at all from the street, but then I saw the crochet friendly yarn shop sticker from Interweave on the door, and I knew.
This [...]
This is my version of calorimetry by Kathryn Schoendorf from The winter 2006 issue of Knitty. I realized after I decided to knit it that a very large proportion of the number of knitters on Ravelry have made one too (see here).
The gauge on mine was really far from that of the original as [...]
Sep 29th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
Here are some pictures of the scarf I knit with the yarn I spun from the Pixie batts from Evonne Wee’s Etsy shop:
I am very pleased with it. I have listed it in my new Parallax Knitting Etsy store (here).
I didn’t realize that usernames mattered on Etsy, so I created a new one (my [...]
When I was walking through the Calgary airport on Wednesday I was altogether stopped in my tracks by the scene of Rachel Weisz in the most fantastic sweater on the top of American Vogue:
I of course cracked out the wallet immediately.
I desire that sweater — well to be accurate I wish to establish such a [...]
Isn’t Vancouver beautiful?
On the needles is a scarf of a sort. I want to use up a lump of thread that I made up when I started knitting. I wanted to do a figure like Kaffe Fassett’s Persian poppies waistcoat (non-Ravelry link for an estimate of what I mean).
I really didn’t understand about [...]
Sep 19th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
The internets tell me now is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Yarr, mateys).
I’ve been having one of those weeks where I wish to knit everything. Like, everything. Only willpower is standing between me and cast on for three more sweaters, two shawls, and four pairs of socks right this very minute. It’s that form of [...]
Sep 17th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
There’s not often I can say near the Hourglass Sweater (from Last Minute Knitted Gifts) that hasn’t already been said. It’s simple, comfortable, and surely destined to get a wardrobe staple. After the usual Finished Object hemming-and-hawing, I’m pleased with mine:
Pattern: Hourglass Pullover from ‘Last Minute Knitted Gifts’ by Joelle Hoverson
Yarn: Malabrigo Worsted (in ‘holly [...]