Toe Up

Last night I broke the Panda Silk out of stash and started my first pair of toe up socks. First I need to learn Judy’s Magic Cast-On.  I watched the Cat Bordhi’s  video on YouTube to learn how. Soon there was a big needle bird flapping across my lap and biting the vine. Then their was [...]

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Help! Everything I’m Knitting is Blue!

Okay, at the moment there are a number of strong trends in my knitting. I keep having to restart projects because they aren’t fitting. I keep frogging projects because I decide they won’t work as started. I’m becoming a sockhead. Everything I’m knitting is blue. I’m not quite sure how that last list item came [...]

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Another hat and a Bit of Organization

I finished another premmie hat and guess what? It is even smaller than the previous hats. My small stack of hats is starting to look like Russian stacking dolls. It is humbling to realize how irregular my gauge is. I’m working on a fourth hat but don’t think I can finish it in time. However, [...]

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A Fit of Insanity

Okay. All I can say is, it’s Ayumi’s fault. One minute I’m a mild-mannered tech coordinator, and the next I’m ordering kits to knit toy animals. That doesn’t sound so deranged until you realize that the kits are in Japanese, and I DON’T READ JAPANESE! I was using Babel Fish to translate the site and [...]

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A Wednesday Night Knitting Group

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 needles. I’m [...]

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Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

After a month of not much knitting due to the crazed end of school, I’m finally back in the US. Flight home SHOULD have been a great time to knit, but in my packing frenzy, I tossed in the WRONG SIZE NEEDLE for my yarn. Oh the agony of 20+ hours of flight and not [...]

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Still Another Knitout

Louise’s business trip was extended, so I met her down at the Starbucks at Raffles City. She was knitting a lovely, pink baby bib. I frogged the Grace Kelly Scarf (again) so I could start it again on larger needles (because I’m STILL knitting too tightly.) No one else was able to attend so after [...]

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Back to the Beginning

As I mentioned before, the uncooperative scarf was fighting being ripped out. I wrote to the great knitting forum here, Crafting Together. People there had good suggestions. One was to put it in the freezer overnight to make the mohair easier to frog. That did seem to help. I wound the frogged part up into [...]

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Resistance is Futile

I did get enough knitting in to determine that the size 5 needles are improvement. This really is lovely yarn and it is very warm. Just the thing to use for a scarf for someone in Minnesota, USA. Unfortunately, even on the #5 needles, it still curls like crazy. On the plane home from Istanbul [...]

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The Long and Short of It

Long time without writing, but at least at the moment, I have a good reason… I am in Istanbul! Lovely city, but cold and getting colder. I wish the scarf I am knitting was done so I could wear it. I was hoping to find yarn, yarn shops, even wool sweaters here, but no luck. [...]

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