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 →
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 … 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 … 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 →