Clarification

I reread my previous post, and I’m afraid I may have come across as a sassypants, so I want to clarify.
If someone wants to knit garter-stitch scarves, or roll-brimmed hat after roll-brimmed hat, or what have you, then that’s their prerogative, and they’re entitled to it.  If someone wants to spin the same weight of [...]

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Why I’m a process knitter, why I love the product, and dpn reviews

My friend/coworker who I am teaching to knit is a definite product knitter. She wants to knit because she likes clothes. She is a real go-getter and learns quickly because she wants to finish the article and wear it.
Me? Not so much. I don’t care about clothes. I will wear [...]

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No more!

No more will I knit socks one at a time. It took a great deal of inner fortitude to finally finish the second of my green striped socks. Here they are.

It’s really hard to take pictures of one’s feet and/or legs. The perspective is just weird. I look like I [...]

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Sock it to me, baby.

Remember my saying that I was teaching my friend to knit socks? She is making her first pair in worsted weight to get accustomed to the fiddliness. I knitted along with her. She is knitting the cuff on the first sock (she went toe up). I finished my pair. I [...]

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Yay! A Finished Object!

Mittens! Here are the backs…

And here are the fronts…

Yeah, it probably wasn’t the smartest thing to take pictures of my neutral colored mittens on a neutral colored couch.  Where’s my green chair?  Duh.
Some knit bloggers have awesome photography skills.  Me…not so much.  I’m just snappin’ pics to show you what I’ve done/am doing.  I [...]

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Mitten progress

You know, when I start new projects, sometimes I completely forget about the previous ones. I remembered yesterday that I had some mittens…the ones with the short rows across the back so they gently curve, like the human hand.
Well, I finished the cuff on the second one. I put the thumb stitches on [...]

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It must be the smell of spring in the air

You know what they say about springtime. It’s when a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love (really it’s mating). And I think it’s when a knitter’s fancy turns to thoughts of starting a shitload of projects.
Yes, my sweater is still languishing with one sleeve undone, and I’m still working on the [...]

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Yarn swap

I organized a yarn swap at work. Well, it’s not as big a deal as all that. I simply e-mailed everyone at work whom I knew to be a knitter and told them that I was cleaning out my stash. They were welcomed to bring in any leftover balls or any yarn [...]

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Enfin!

I love to start and hate to finish, but finally I finished my striped sock.

It’s made with some Knitpicks sock yarn (I’m too lazy to look up which one) and it’s merino and so squishy and soft. I think I probably wrote all the information about these socks in a previous post, if you’re [...]

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