I’ll readily admit it – I’m as easily amused as your average 5-year-old. Sit me down in front of an anthill or give me a kaleidoscope, and go do your shopping. (I’ve decided to consider this a charming personality trait rather than an indicator of mental development.) Anyhow, it turns out that starting over on that sleeve had another benefit.… Continue Reading As much fun as mud pies
Continue reading →I will let the pictures speak for themselves first… No, I didn’t mix up the captions.I ripped out the whole sleeve, back to the cuff. It had slowly dawned on me that, aside from having other projects that I needed to work on, I was becoming reluctant to knit on this sleeve. I enjoy watching this colorful knitted fabric grow… Continue Reading Before and after
Continue reading →I try to keep it under control, but I seem to have developed a much worse case than usual of ‘startitis’ just recently.I suspect that the cause is twofold; one is the weather change (see the plants we brought inside for a couple of nights?), and the other is the sudden need for a couple of thank-you gifts. Here is… Continue Reading Startitis
Continue reading →The first Ithilien sleeve has started to take shape: Both cuffs are done, and I picked up 73 stitches and started knitting upward in the leaf pattern. It took a while before the pattern started to appear, so I felt overly dependent on the charts for the first inch or so. Actually, this is my second effort – I got… Continue Reading Ithilien sleeve, inside and out
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