Mystery Afghan

I looked through 44 pages of Afghans and throws on Ravelry and I can’t find it. Maybe I dreamed it. Maybe I saw it elsewhere. I’d like to track it down, so if you’ve seen it can you point me at it please? I am fairly certain that it was pictured in neutral shades, that …

Weary

I feel really very tired today and disinclined to do anything very much at all. I certainly don’t feel like making another fingerless glove today. Today is a day for for comfort  – comfort food, comfort knitting, log fires, mugs of hot chocolate.. that kind of thing I am braising a pair of lamb shanks …

A Finished Object!

The Grreen ‘n Grrowlly version of the #1 Husband socks, in Hipknits cashmere. Not washed and blocked yet.

Oh, dear…

I think we may safely make a claim that my glove-knitting skills are… shall we say “up for development”? On day, some time soon, I shall have to weave in all those ends… *sigh* I am not looking forward to making the pair to this glove.

Ugh

I have two things to say. The first is that knitting gloves is like wrestling an octopus. The second is that I am not anticipating glove #2 with any measure of joy. The first glove has reached the ring finger stage. Almost done. What a pity that is not the end of the story. My …

Castonitis

This week’s excess: Butternut Scarf by Anne Hanson at Knitspot. I am knitting this from one of the colours in the mixed ends of Merino/Silk/Cashmere that I bought a while back. [Ravelry Project] It is a very difficult colour to capture – somewhere between a deep coral and a dark rose pink, depending on the …