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Tag: Knitting

  • Pure Knits submission: Finished.

    The air has finally dipped below ninety degrees. The figs are ripe. The tomatoes are overripe. The new freshmen are starting to arrive. Justin Timberlake cancelled his Sacramento shows, the next season of The Office is poised to burst onto network television, and I think– I think– it is time for me to start pretending…

  • Last Week, Part II.

    Which, I guess, is actually two weeks ago now. The story behind the following picture is that I didn’t actually rendezvous with my Pure Knits yarn until I got back home to California. Instead, some serious sockage happened. I finished a mate to a single sock that has been hanging around since like 2005, and…

  • The Last Week In Knitting, Part I

    Well, that’s a slightly better picture of the last-minute minisweater. There’s significantly more shape-ambiguity, but there’s much less bathroominess. That’s me and my mom and the totally orange dress in some parking lot in New Jersey, moments before some Starbucks and Chik-fil-A happened. The rush-rush sweater was a pretty big hit, but admittedly not quite…

  • Five days until a new finished sweater that I won’t have time to blog about.

    Next Friday I’ll be in NJ, where I grew up. I’m going to a wedding. Boy was I smug when I found a dress on sale, a full month in advance. No procrastinating for me! I win! Problem: Yesterday morning I tried the dress on, and discovered that the dress print is in fact orange,…

  • If you liked Firefly, you’ll love the Fall Knitscene preview

    If the name and/or style of the Prairie Kimono sweater was NOT inspired by Kaylee, especially her part in that flashback episode, then time-space must be folding in on itself. And come on… the “Firefly Moebius”? The vaguely cunning “Shaggy Earflap” hat? The “Hero Pullover”, which has not a ding-dang thing to do with the…

  • The End of the Rectangle Affair

    Summertime Tunic by Katie Himmelberg 2 skeins SWTC Bamboo, colorway “parrot” Size 6 needles Alterations: Sized up slightly (192 st circumference). Knitted from top down to ensure enough yarn to finish. Omitted ribbed hip definition thing to try to avoid that stylish “blouson” effect everyone keeps talking about. Hey, I think I mentioned back in…

  • I feel just like a tiny cowgirl with a yarny lasso.

    Son of Stitch ‘N Bitch is available for preorder on Amazon! And one of the sweaters on the cover might be one that I designed.

  • Breeze.

    These are  “Breeze” from the most recent Knitty. Yarn: Mandarin Petit fingering weight cotton, 1 ball (180m). I used all but 3.75 yards. Needles: US2 (2.75mm) Start: June 11, 2007 Finish: June 16, 2007. Such an economic use of yarn, and such cute socks! I loved making these. I foresee an orange pair in my…

  • Good news for Lucky Clover knitters!

    Melissa Wehrle, the designer of the Stitch ‘N Bitch Lucky Clover wrap sweater, just posted her corrections on her blog, neoknits. I haven’t been posting about my progress on the sweater, because I sincerely believe that nobody in the world needs to be alerted every time I put another row on the thing. I’m almost…

  • “BEING Miss Georgia almost makes you cool. But not marrying her.”

    Hey, my site has been having some funky stuff going on due to a server thing. I just realized today that there have been a bunch of comments for which I didn’t get an email notification, and thus didn’t reply to. If you’re one of those commentors, I’m not trying to be a negligent jerk,…