I don’t just have the itch to cast on at the moment, nor just the itch to spend (see below) but my hands are genuinely itchy. Really, really itchy. I am sensitive to UV and the little sunshine that we have had recently has set me off. I don’t understand how – when I was …
Monthly archives: March 2008
Ouch
Forehead>Desk Forehead>Desk Forehead>Desk Forehead>Desk Forehead>Desk Forehead>Bloody Desk See the blood? SEE it??? It took all afternoon, but I ended up with an inch and a half of beautiful, soft, dusky pink, evenly neat ribbing. I did the increase. I did the knit row. I put in the stitch markers (improvised from lengths of differently …
Petra-fied
When I said that I was “only” going to allow myself the ribbing on one of the hand warmers today, I hadn’t really stopped to consider the constraints, had I? An inch and a half of k2 p2 doesn’t sound like much until you stop to think about the challenge of knitting laceweight yarn on …
Casting on time
My copy of 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders has arrived. Not exactly stuffed with desirability but one or three useful patterns for ‘is fiver – and the only way that I could get hold of the laceweight fingerless glove pattern. Later on, I’ll tackle some of the hats and mittens and felted projects, from handspun. They’ll …
Stats
Why the heck would anyone be wanting to search for “mr plumbum” ? Leave him alone. He’s my mr plumbum and you can’t have him! :-p Stats are fascinating, are they not? This is a regular search string: “span spun spinned” I looked it up once. Given the number of hits on this blog for …
Slip Slidin’ Away
You know, there is no way that this yarn is going to last out. However, I knit on… with misplaced optimism and a healthy dose of knitterly denial. Heel turned, gusset picked up (poorly) Home straight in sight. Dreading the second (half) sock and the moment of truth. It was such a gorgeous morning …