As of today, I have a new knitting trick up my sleeve: Entrelac.
I used the center part of this pattern to try my hand. I really like it. I knit this bit with some of my own handspun, as I wanted to see the effect with the color changes. Very very cool.
New thing #2:
My local [...]
Well, I’m still out of HatAttack!, but you might have been tempted to think, from the lack of activity on here, that I’ve been knocked out of blogland, too. It’s been a busy spot, full of sample spinning, homeschool co-op activities, and then travelling to Texas with the munchkins to stay with family friends. I’ve [...]
Timeline (all times approximate):
10:30pm Tuesday night, the subject was given permission to cast on a new hat in place of a missing WIP for her 6th target.
10:30:03pm Tuesday night, the subject grabbed a nearby hank of Malabrigo Worsted in Indigo and cast on.
12:11am Wednesday morning, the subject reportedly went to bed, laid awake for approximately [...]
This, dear readers, is a hard colorway to photograph! This doesn’t do justice to all the variations of green in Meg of Twisted’s dyeing skill. She and her people are working on a brand new website, which I’m sure will be amazing. Anywho, the fiber is a blend of merino wool and tussah silk. It [...]
This hat was designed and knit in honor of our church’s newest newborn baby.
The bottom lace is inspired by a flat lace that I converted to in-the-round knitting and tweaked to make more suitable for a hat. I played with the border where the lace meets the “plain” part of the hat to give it [...]
These socks are also made from yarn with the colorway “Tuscany” but they are much less tomato-y. It’s Lorna’s Laces from my Christmas yarn from Mom & Dad. I love it. But that means I’ve got 2 different tuscany socks in progress. That’s a whole new level of cast-on-itis, I believe.
I do have a plausible [...]
