…and a lot of other stuff, too!
Project Name:Greenleaf Center Christmas Scarf Source: My Own Design (yay!) Yarn Used: Caron One Pound Needle Size: U.S. 9 Date Started: July 15, 2011 Date Completed: September 24, 2011 Notes: (This scarf was knitted as a donation to the Greenleaf Senior Center in Washington, DC.) Ok, so you know how everything old is new again?…
I never quite know how to show a scarf in progress on my blog. For the most part, they’re long and unwieldy, and since I do most of my photos indoors at night, it’s not like I can take them out and hang them from the fence post to shoot them outdoors. So today, I’m…
I am a selfish knitter. I admit it. Rarely do I knit for others, but that’s because I know myself. You see, I knit, a LOT. What I don’t do? Finish. Anything. In all of 2010, I finished one scarf. A scarf that I started in 2009. This year? Nada. Zilch. Nothing completed. That’s bad,…
I’ve been away from this blog for so long, I was starting to wonder if I’d ever come back. But, alas, here I am. I have so much blogging to catch up on! I never did write about the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival this year, or my Knit group’s first ever spinning day. Both…
I gotta make a dishcloth. I love these little babies in concept, really I do. I have tons of dishcloth cotton that would speak to my love of such things. But really? I don’t like them. Well, it’s not the dishcloth’s fault. It’s the yarn. I hate the yarn. I really do. it feels awful…
Today I decided that it’s time to put the shawl on two needles, so I spread it out while I could and snapped these: Yesterday, a co-worker put it on her shoulders, and it’s the size of a cute little shoulder shawlette. Another co-worker walked in while the two of us were playing with the…