Category: Knitting

I didn’t get to take a picture of this because the cat moved when I went to get the camera, but the other day I came home to find Rita snuggled up in the Clapotis I was working on. Double-plus-good? The knitting was on the dining room table. Rita’s mobility has increased so much that [...]

Suffering for Art. Well, not quite art but crafts and they’re commonly grouped together. My shoulder still hurts. I did eventually go to the Prompt Care place and got some extra strength pain killers. They don’t actually kill the pain, but they do bring it down from an 8 or 9 to a 5 or [...]

Kitti’s step-sister is due to have a baby sometime… in the future (in 2011 — that much I’m sure of). I made a sweater and hat for Kitti’s step-brother’s kid, and I think I set the bar a little too high. I’ve been fretting about what to make for not-exactly-niecephew #2, figuring this kid will [...]

Tonight I broke my very first needle. The wooden end of a Harmony Wood fixed circular Size 1 snapped off. I have about an inch and a half of sock leg to finish and the needle broke. “Ah, well,” I said. “I’ll get a replacement (I don’t have DPNs that small). For now, I’ll move [...]

Aside from being hot and miserable through most of it, at least. Accomplished the knitting of a heel in a toe-up sock. Apparently the 37th time is the charm. Actually, it’s still not perfect. The picking-up of stitches didn’t go so well, so there are gaps. Also, maybe using size 1 needles wasn’t the best [...]

I have very nearly completed my first sock! The heel isn’t perfect — there are weird gaps and it bears a slight resemblance to a duck’s bill, but it worked. I successfully made it from the toe to the heel and then around and up! It’s approximately shin-length at this point, and I admit to [...]

So I’m still knitting my first toe-up sock. Kind of. I’m knitting the first toe-up sock again because I screwed up once I got to the heel. I’m at the heel again, and at least I think I know what I did wrong last time. Mostly it was… see, Law & Order: SVU was on [...]

At the end of April, I posted that Knit Picks had a sock yarn called Time Traveler and that it was about time I learned to make socks. Lori reminded me about Silver’s Sock Class, which I’d used in earlier attempts to make socks (on DPNs, cuff-down) and had actually worked for me (except I [...]

Time Traveler Wear these brightly striped socks whether you are going to the office or traveling through time and space. Time Traveler is a colorful mix of purple, tan, red, gold, ivory, and gray stripes. While you can knit some really really long socks, this colorway will not create socks that are larger on the [...]