Posted in online, resources on June 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Okay, I’m already totally addicted to Ravelry, and now I find the books section. Here I am, all excited about my new Sensational Knitted Socks book. I think, “Gee, it would be cool if I could keep track of my knitting books in Ravelry. I wonder if I can.”
So, I go to Ravelry and [...]
Posted in WIP, resources on June 28, 2007 | No Comments »
I LOVE this book. It is Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch. How do I love it? Let me count the ways…
The 28 page introduction to knitting socks, including sock yarns, sock anatomy, size charts, stitch tables, tips, techniques for casting on, increasing, decreasing, heals, and toes. It also has troubleshooting and an abbreviation [...]
Posted in WIP on June 28, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m happy to say my first spiral sock is done. Just one, not the pair. However, it is a new milestone; I made a toe.
I had already decided that the socks should actually be a slipper and so I was delighted to see that Beyagi, the yarn store near my home, has leather slipper patches [...]
Posted in LYS on June 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Seems so crazy that I am here visiting all these amazing yarn shops when I’m such a newbie knitter. By right, those of you back in Singapore should be the ones here. You’d make much better use of this great opportunity. The best I can do is to continue to shower you with photos of [...]
Posted in WIP, books on June 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m dabbling with socks and as a result, there are UFOs everywhere. My first attempt was from my spiffy new books, Kids Knitting by Melanie Falick.
I was drawn to the Spiral Socks pattern because it seemed like a good inro to DPNs, but with a worsted weight yarn so it would be a [...]
Posted in LYS on June 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On Wednesday, Louise and I visited the Borealis Yarns in St. Paul. Here are a the photos.
Cherry Tree Hill
Sale Yarn Table
Bamboo
Lucy Neatby Yarn
Dream in Color Smooshy Sock Yarns
Posted in knit outs, projects on June 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Just home from a lovely time with a Wednesday night knitting group that meets at a Panera restaurant. I greatly enjoyed my time with them. They welcomed me in and then kept up a steady stream of interesting talk while I tried to learn to knit two socks at once on two circular [...]
Posted in FOs on June 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »
At long last, after many MANY restarts, the Tammy scarf is done!
(Okay, this isn’t really my first FO, but it is the first since I started knitting again. That makes it my first FO in 20 years or so– after that long a break, wouldn’t I be considered a knitting virgin again?)
I planned [...]
Posted in resources on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
As a new knitter, knitting abbreviations baffle me. Even when I know what the abbreviation means such as slip, I don’t know the details of what I am supposed to do. I have seen lists of abbreviations, but they usually just what the letters stand for, not how to do what it stands [...]
Posted in LYS on June 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
On Tuesday, wonderful Louise took me yarn shopping. The Twin Cities has a deliciously large quantity of yarn shops and I’ve been in very few of them.
Our first stop was the Double Ewe yarn shop out in Circle Pines, Minnesota. Kelly, the proprietor, is as friendly and helpful as you could ask, and her yarn [...]
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