Let me start by saying I am a real sucker for all things cute. I love the patterns at Mochi Mochi Land for being adorable… (and am also tempted to make some of them for a friend of mine who’s having a kidlet in a couple of months… her kid is going to end up [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 30, 2008
“See? It pays to carry creative things with you!”
This post will be devoid of photos. I haven’t had time to take them or edit them or post them on flickr, despite having made a fair bit of progress toward finishing off a few WIPs lately.
As I settle into my almost-daily trip across the bay, I’m surprised and pleased at the amount of [...]
July 23, 2008
“It’s a funny thing to say to a dancer, congratulations on your turned heel…”
It’s hard to believe, looking at my sock-in-progress, how terrified I was of knitting one in the first place. The sock is a couple of pattern inches away from the final steps of knitting and kitchenering the toe… that heel-turning bit that I was so afraid of turned out to be quite simple, when [...]
July 15, 2008
Ravelympian in training… (or: how I began to conquer my fear of knitting socks)
I think that somewhere around two posts ago, I decided that I was going to start finishing more projects before I was allowed to start any new ones. My FO list for 2008 consists of one simple scarf and a collection of chenille roses… (only one of which I’ve bothered to put up on [...]
July 11, 2008
A pattern is really just a group of suggestions, right?
I don’t think I’ve ever knit a pattern exactly as written. (At some level, I suppose very few people manage to knit something, particularly something large, without some mistake somewhere, which makes this statement generally true… but I am referring to something else, which is a deliberate set of pattern modifications). I switch [...]
July 8, 2008
How close is too close?
People told me, upon hearing my new address, that I’d be “dangerously close to [my favorite LYS].” They weren’t kidding. I knew they weren’t kidding at the time, but I can’t say I’d anticipated this much fiber lust when Sam and I chose this block and this apartment as our home.
Just last week, [...]
July 2, 2008
The Allure of the “New Project”
Confession: I have startitis. I would say that I have it lately, and only with knitting, but really, this has been a lifelong problem. I think my personal startitis (that is, a tendency to start new projects before finishing old ones) relates to a general lack of deadlines in personal projects. [...]
