lots of updates!

I've been a busy bee lately. We spent Memorial Day weekend in Ohio, visiting my brother and his wife, as well as my husband's parents, my husband's brother and his wife, and my husband's best friend and his two little kids. Visiting 4 families in a little over 2 days is a bit overwhelming! And…

A finished “swatch”.

Before we begin, a PSA for y'all: If it is 82 degrees in your house, and your hands are sweaty, for the love of all that is good, DO NOT attempt to repeatedly rip out bind-offs and reknit portions of your sweater. You know what happens when you mix wool with heat, moisture, and friction,…

Post-FO

I've been knitting sweaters left and right recently, as you all know. You get to see them while I'm knitting them, and then in a triumphant FO post, and then...nothing. So, inspired by a recent post at Eleven Stitches, I thought I'd share with y'all some updates on the various sweaters I've knit, and how…

works in progress.

This, my friends, is how much sleeve you (where by you, I mean me, or someone with comparably long, skinny arms) can get out of 1 skein of Cascade 220: Approximately 1.5 sleeves. I've since finished the sleeves, and have moved on to join them to the body, so expect a post about that, soon.…

an almost-FO, and something new

Yesterday morning, I bound off Ishbel: It still needs a good blocking, but it's so humid here right now that I'd rather wait...it seems like it would never dry if I tried to block it right now! I'm following my usual practice of not considering this a finished object (either here, or over on Ravelry)…

so many ideas, so little time!

There, now this post has a picture. I've finished my TA duties and my own coursework for this semester, and about to embark on the process of preparing for my comprehensive exams ("comps" or "quals"...I've heard them called both, so I have taken to jokingly calling them "quamps"). With a somewhat more flexible schedule over…

Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother's Day, mom. I love you very much. I hope you are having a wonderful day! In knitting-related news, I've gone and done something completely silly. You know how I've been designing a sweater for a friend of mine, to knit for her in exchange for a quilt? Well, I'd planned on just doing…

just a peek.

Wow, it has been a long time since I last posted. I figured I'd come out of hiding, at least very briefly, today. Not much has transpired on the knitting front recently; I've knit a bit more on Ishbel, but have honestly been so terribly overwhelmed with the non-knitting parts of life recently that the…