Syncopated Ribs neckline modifications

First off, I never took a picture of the finished sweater without me in it, so here's that: So, the neckline. The pattern (which is knit from the bottom of the front, over the top of the shoulders to the bottom of the back; I don't want to give too many more details out of…

Syncopated Ribs!

Well, the weather did not oblige me, and decided to be stormy today despite my desire to go up to the beach to take pictures of my newest handknit sweater. Oh well. I made the best of things, and settled on our still-pretty (if crazily overgrown) backyard for the purpose of photographing myself wearing it:…

better

I am feeling slightly less like death-on-a-stick than I was the last time I posted, thanks to spending most of this week in bed. Not the most exciting thing I've ever done, but it was worth it for the sake of not getting even sicker. And hey, I did some knitting, while I was at…

can’t keep up

I've been terrible about blogging stuff lately. I keeping thinking, "ooh, I'll blog about X", and even getting as far as uploading pictures relating to X to Flickr, but the posts just don't happen. It's probably mostly a matter of the new med they have me on for nerve pain (the old one started making…

stop and smell the lilacs

It's lilac season here, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. The air around my neighborhood (home of the Lilac Festival) is just thick with their scent. I went for a walk through the park the other day (avoiding the main part of the festival, as I'm just not a festival sort of gal) and came home…

I’m back (sort of)

And I have some knitting progress to report: Yep, I used Syncopated Ribs as my Officially Permitted Distraction Knitting whilst finishing up a bunch of work at the end of this semester, and came very close to finishing off the knitting on the body. I've only got a few more inches left to knit down…

earthy sweaters

This particular period of Project Spectrum is so up my alley. I'm an earth-tones sort of girl, I've been an environmentalist since before I even knew the word, and now I've even got a garden where I can literally play in the dirt. There's no way on earth I could knit all of the potential…

what now?

It is very strange, not having the shawl to knit on anymore. My hands are literally feeling lost and confused without their daily dose of yarnovers and decreases. I have never been so single-mindedly focused on a particular project for that long. The last couple days, I just haven't known what to do with myself...so…