Stripes! is now available!

Thanks to the fantastic efforts of my test-knitters and the friends who helped me edit the pattern, Stripes! is finally available as a Ravelry download. You can also visit its Pattern Page here on this blog. I am so excited to be able to offer this pattern/tutorial! I decided not to make it free, which…

help!

I have not finished writing the pattern/tutorial for Stripes! yet. Part of this is because I have been absolutely crushingly busy since getting back from the conference, but the other part is this: I have no idea what I'm doing. Well, that's not entirely true. I've got the writing part down just fine. But the…

a pattern/tutorial?

Holy cow, Stripes! is popular...every time I check on Ravelry, even more people have made it a favorite and more people have commented. I totally didn't expect that! Thanks, everyone, for your lovely comments on my last post...I'm trying to respond to each of them, but have been crushingly busy this week. Several people have…

stripes!!

Two days ago, I finally used up the first skein of Cascade Eco Wool, only inches shy of finishing the yoke on Stripes!, and had to ball up a new skein. The yardage is insane! By yesterday, I was furiously finishing Stripes!, ripping and reknitting the collar three times until I was happy with the…

a most wonderful trip, in photos.

We flew to New Mexico on Saturday, to visit my grandparents: I got to hang out with cactus in cool, sunny weather: We hiked at Tent Rocks, which is one of my favorite places in all the world: Being at Tent Rocks is like being on another planet. It's amazing: (More Tent Rocks photos can…

wishing…

...I could just be knitting and knitting on Stripes!. But alas, this has been one heck of a busy week, and I've got a full day of work to do today, and then packing, and then we leave before the crack of dawn tomorrow morning to fly down to Albuquerque. So the knitting is not…

busy bee.

Oy, this semester has been rather exhausting so far! I spent all of last weekend (literally: about 18 hours) grading that huge stack of exams in my last post, and then most of last week meeting with students about said exams. In a class of 108, even having only 10% of the class show up…

more stripes!

Just a quick post today, as I've been taken down by the respiratory bug of DOOM, and am feeling half-dead. And also completely and utterly voiceless, which is rather inconvenient given that I've got a review session to be running in a few hours. Thankfully, two of my awesome friends have offered to help me…

stripes!

Thanks for all of your lovely comments on my last post! This is a rare mid-week post from me, I know, but I just did not want to wait until the weekend to share the newest thing I've cast on for. Basically, I ignored all y'all's suggestions, and cast-on for something that wasn't even on…