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Tag: Knitting

  • FINAL YARNY CONQUEST FOR 2007/INAUGURAL YARNY REVIEW FOR 2008

    Happy new year, folks! It’s time for me to get started on what I hope will be a fine year of knitting stuff, documenting it, and complaining about the results! Whooo! I am pretty satisfied with my yarn collection. I have enough for most of what I want to make, and I’ve found myself really…

  • Hacky Sack Hoodie: Lapped Collar Walkthrough

    I received a very good question about the Hoodie’s instructions: In the body/neck section, when you start slipping stitches onto a dpn, what exactly is supposed to be happening? That part of the pattern creates the overlapped collar, and also serves to join the two ends of your knitting so that you can continue in…

  • Son of Stitch ‘N Bitch Book Signing: no pictures of the luchador mask. 🙁

    This is me with Debbie Stoller at her Dec. 10 book signing at Moe’s in Berkeley. We’re all Christmassy! I wish I had a better photo of her rad sweater, but let’s just get on with the post, shall we. Since I missed her Sacramento-area appearance, I and Davis’ Finest Knitters, Julia and Natalie, drove…

  • Sock Wars on the Wall Street Journal

    Many thanks to Julia for the link. Cute article from an outsider’s perspective. I always love it when the WSJ puts out stuff that relates to knit culture. From the article, Julie Gardner: “The whole ‘knitting is the new yoga’ cliche had been irritating a good few of us”.  Is “knitting is the new Assassins”…

  • December: Better than all of the Octobers were

    So you know how people worry that Ravelry will be the death of blogs? Haven’t you happened upon a blogger or two lately who put all her stuff up on Ravelry, but neglected to document it blogside? Well, now you’ve happened upon a blogger or three. Blogging apparently has a lot in common with eating…

  • The Hacky Sack Sweater…

    …is my pattern in Son of Stitch ‘N Bitch! Which was bestowed upon my mailbox this week! If you’ve noticed that 100% of my two published patterns are hoodies, then give yourself a pat on the back. If it ain’t got a hood, it ain’t no good. I intend to say that to my grandkids…

  • October Roundup, Pt. 2:

    This shall include the general non-sock happenings of October II: Which Turned Out To Be Not Such A More-Better October After All. The other thing that has happened on my knitting needles lately is this sweater: No longer a swatch, it is now an impressive hill of slightly ordered green Ultra Alpaca. It is also…

  • Terrorists: your game is through, ’cause now you’ve got to answer to…

    My finished socks. Specs: 4×4 rib pattern, on US0 40? circular needles, 450yds of Froehlich Blauband Special. For interested parties doing some kind of yarn economy calculation, I used 100% of that 250 yds on each sock, on 64 sts with no calf increases; they knit to 14? calves, but wear at 12?. I’ve already…

  • October Roundup, Pt. 1:

    So! October is generally my favorite month, but this year I rate it a capital SUCK. I want October back. I hear people gearing up for NaNoWriMo and NaKniSweMo, but I’m getting ready for October II: The More-Better October. To anyone who didn’t get an email reply to their comment in the last non-month: Sorry.…

  • Cavity-Free in 2007

    So, just because I didn’t post for a month does not mean I didn’t rant for a month. I bitched about the state of knitting all month long, to anyone who would listen. I shook my fist and I swore that when I returned to bloggery, the world would KNOW of my ire, possibly in…