Making progress

I've definitely been feeling those words on my shirt recently - these are indeed hard times for soft-hearted folks like me. But at least I have my knitting to keep me feeling a bit more centered. I've now almost finished the body of my Farmhouse cardigan, and have used exactly 2 full skeins of the…

Thank you, Ravelry.

You can donate to Ravelry here Ravelry made a really big move this weekend, and I worry they’re going to get a lot of pushback. While I have some mixed feelings, I think they made the best, strongest move they could make, given all of the circumstances and constraints involved, to ensure their site remained…

I MADE POCKETS!!

It's a pocket!!! (It's not actually crooked, I just spread my fingers out kind of weirdly when I snapped the photo.)   So, it turns out that I got so excited about my double-knit pockets that I couldn't stop working on them and I actually finished them today!! I thought I'd make another post about…

Sometimes, the yarn knows what it wants to be.

So, remember how I expressed some reservations about how the Little Wave pattern was coming out in my Bartlettyarns 2-ply? And how I mentioned that maybe it would work better as a Farmhouse Cardigan?   Well, sometimes I'm a little bit of a dumbass, because I kept right on knitting the Little Wave pattern up…

a little less invisible

I still haven't decided where to put my rainbow sheep sticker! My newest finished project is a pair of mitts, from a really neat pattern (Joy) by Ysolda Teague - there’s a folded hem plus intarsia combined with double knitting just in the first few rows, which kept me on my toes, but the pattern…

updates from a chilly early June

It's a raglan! I figured out how to make the sleeve actually come out as a raglan - I think the issue might be that the pattern just says "turn" but really means something like "wrap and turn" (which would use the next stitch; otherwise, unless I'm completely misreading things, you're always decreasing across the…

Progress on Elle Melle (the third)

I ended up bringing Elle Melle with me on our trip to Ohio, which ended up being an entire day longer than it was supposed to be due to car problems, which meant having an entire extra day of needing to be quiet (because my brother-in-law works 3rd shift and sleeps during the day) before…