A Cardi for Grandma
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting, sweaters
Quick BookMate update: I was contacted again by the person who sells the BookMates. They are still available for purchase at this new website, and I think a few of the BookMate I cover designs are new. (No affiliation, just an interested reader.)
A year later than intended, I presented Grandma with the Cropped Cardigan [...]
Tags: bongo, cropped-cardigan, gift, grandma, lace, sweaters, white
At long last!
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting, sweaters
Can you believe it? I finally finished the Cropped Cardigan; all the seams have been sewn, ends woven in, and buttons attached.
Yippee!!
Technically, this project took over a year to finish, but a lot of that time was spent in hibernation. If I had worked on this continuously, I estimate the actual time would be [...]
Tags: bongo, buttons, cotton, cropped-cardigan, four-seasons, lace, leisure-arts, sweaters, white
Grand Shop Hop
Posted by limedragon | Filed under events, knitting
Quick note: I am testing a new photo popup plugin in this post. Go on, try it out by clicking any of the pictures below. Please let me know how it works and how you like it. Thank you!Update: To close the pop-up if the instructions don’t work or show up for you, click on [...]
Tags: bead-monkey, beads, buttons, cabin-fever, cropped-cardigan, events, fabric, grand-ave, hats, more-sensational-knitted-socks, mountain-colors, oilcloth, shop-hop, socks, treadle-yard-goods, yarnery
Limbo
Posted by limedragon | Filed under general, knitting
I’ve been in a weird sort of knitting limbo or apathy. I knit and knit, but I don’t seem to accomplish anything. Gauge is way off, the fabric sucks, the yarn looks ugly, et cetera.
This has all been caused by several factors, the largest of which is I still haven’t finished seaming the Cropped [...]
Tags: apathy, china, chocolate, class, contemplation, cropped-cardigan, dance, deaf, editorial, fda, limbo, mothers-day, shepherds-harvest, thousand-hand-bodhisattva
Still cursed, but…
Posted by limedragon | Filed under accessories, knitting, socks
Quick question! Is anyone doing a Stash Flash on April 1 again this year?
I’m still battling the sock curse. Meanwhile, I’ve got an almost FO and a FO to show you all!!
Tags: accessories, bongo, cardigan, cropped-cardigan, fortissima, four-seasons, hats, mad-cows, patons, project-spectrum, sock-madness, socks, sweaters, sws, toe-up
Perpetually Behind
Posted by limedragon | Filed under accessories, knitting, sweaters
That’s the story of my life in two words. I’m sure it happens to everyone now and then. I feel like this, oh, about 80% of the time.
During breaks from the Yarrow Ribbed socks, I resumed the Cropped Cardigan project. I feel so bad for neglecting it (and for far longer than I [...]
Tags: accessories, bongo, cardigan, cropped-cardigan, four-seasons, gift, project-spectrum, sweaters, sws
Slowly Catching Up
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting, socks, sweaters
I uploaded these pictures but hadn’t gotten around to blogging about them, so here you go.
Tags: cotton, cropped-cardigan, errant ankles, fluted baninster, gift, lace, site updates, socks, trekking, white, wordpress
Diamond Lace Meets the Gang
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitalongs, sweaters
Diamond Lace (aka Cropped Cardigan) is now past the halfway mark with the completion of the front panels. To celebrate, we went scouting around for unlikely models for the last Amazing Lace challenge.
Tags: amazing lace, celebrity, contests, cropped-cardigan, knitalong, lace, silly
Sock Progress
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitalongs, knitting, socks
During the past week, I finished the toes and insteps on the Color Blox Sox for 6Sox. I haven’t taken a real progress picture yet because it’s all stockinette. I did finish the heels last night, and they look great and fit very well, yay! I enjoyed this type of toe-up heel-flap-gusset construction. It seemed [...]
Tags: blue, blue-moon-fiber-arts, cherry-tree-hill, color-blox, cropped-cardigan, lace, rock-and-weave, rockin, six-sox-kal, sock-club, socks, socks-that-rock, supersock, toe-up
Lace Poetry
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting, sweaters
I will be honest. I cringed inwardly when I saw the topic for The Amazing Lace Challenge #3. I enjoy reading poetry now and then. But writing poetry? That’s definitely a challenge for me. I had to think about it for a while. I scribbled various English words. I read Catullus, Homer, and Ovid to [...]
Tags: amazing lace, contests, cropped-cardigan, knitalong, lace, poetry
