It has rolled around again, and I wasn’t as ready as I wanted to be for the 2012 Kansas State Fair. I know, big surprise, right? Well, I lost some knitting time after DH’s old laptop went wacko, and it turned out to be the most problematic rescue-and-rebuild I have ever done. I still don’t know why, but that’s water… Continue Reading Fair time!
Continue reading →Persuaded by my eldest daughter, I entered my Ithilien Brocade Jacket in the state fair. There’s just one teeny little problem with that… it’s not finished. I am writing this on August 22nd, and entries have to be checked in by 6:00 p.m. on September 9th. It’s just possible that I may be able to finish it in time. On… Continue Reading A bump in the road
Continue reading →And now, back to our regular programming! I have gotten a fair bit of knitting done since the last knitting post, so I’m trying to catch up here. I did finish Keith’s Cable Cardigan, but since I haven’t been able to corral him yet for a picture, I’ll save the details until I can. Here’s the first half of a… Continue Reading Actual knitting content
Continue reading →I’ve recently discovered a different kind of Viking knitting. Not like my Viking socks, which have cable designs taken from Viking stone carving and other artifacts (I highly recommend Elsebeth Lavold’s book Viking Patterns for Knitting for this), but with wire! This kind of work has evidently been called Viking knitting for a long, long time, and is a method… Continue Reading Viking knitting
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