Relax!
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting, shawls or stoles
Many thanks to everyone who left encouraging comments regarding my worries about the Logan River Wrap. I took
Tags: challenge, interweave knits, kathmandu aran, logan river wrap, mile, miriam l felton, purple, stashdown
Multiplicity
Posted by limedragon | Filed under baby stuff, decor, knitting
I managed to squeeze in some time to knit a few hats for k3tog’s Preemie Hat drive.
My goal was to knit as many hats as I could get out of a 68-gram leftover ball of Bernat Softee Baby. So how many hats was I able to get from that 68 grams?
Tags: baby, basketweave, bernat, challenge, charity, dishcloth, gift, k3tog, mile, misti, pink, preemie hats, softee baby, stash down, washcloth, yellow
Veni, vidi, vici
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting, socks
Remember these terrible, horrible, no good, very bad socks? I was tired of them hanging around, unfinished and making this knitter all kinds of unhappy.
No more!
Tags: challenge, crystal-palace, footies, gift, grandma, hidden in my shoe, mile, orange, panda-wool, sheron, six-sox-kal, sock-yarn, socks, stashdown
Goldilocks
Posted by limedragon | Filed under accessories, knitting
When I started putting away the few colors of left over Wool-Ease I had pulled from stash for the Gansey Watch Cap, it occurred to me that I could make my own marled yarn by mixing and holding different color strands together as one yarn.
But what to make? Hats! I needed to add a [...]
Tags: black, blue, challenge, charity, cornerstone, free, gift, gray, hats, lion-brand, mile, patterns, prize, red, rory, socks-in-the-cities, stash, stashdown, wool-ease, yarnery
Rationing
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting
Last year, I half-heartedly said I would knit from stash. I did OK with this, but I also added too much to stash. Looking through my archives, there’s a definite pattern: most of the shopping happened during November and December. Is it a pathological need to stock up on woolly goods in preparation for the [...]
Tags: challenge, goals, mile, sock-yarn, ssec, stashdown, yarn stash
