I love colorful handpainted yarn. I don’t like pooling or flashing yarn. This creates a dilemna. What do you make with it? Can you see the flashing on the ribbing? I don’t want a hat that looks like that. What I do want, is a stitch…
Category: Wednesday’s WIP
Socks in Progress {Wednesday’s WIP}
I am still knitting on my stripey socks. I am loving the bright colors and clear stripes.
I love simple lace {Wednesday’s WIP}
I do. I love simple and easy repeats that I can memorize and run with. I love the anticipation of blocking it and watching it grow in size and beauty. I love the slowness and deliberateness of it but at the same time how consuming it…
Starting over {Wednesday’s WIP}
I started knitting with this yarn last week. I worked about 150 rows of a shawl. A rectangular one with 70 stitches a row. And then realized I had made a couple of mistakes. Normally I would just ignore the mistakes. But I wanted the shawl…
Something for myself {Wednesday’s WIP}
After a whole lot of baby knitting and two hitch hikers I am so ready for some selfish knitting. I had two skeins of Debbie Macomber Blossom Street Collection Petals Socks in my stash that are so soft and squishy. I am knitting my Rhombuses Wrap…
Little Baby Socks {Wednesday’s WIP}
I made a teeny tiny baby sock I should have shown something next to them to show you all just how small they are. The sock is barely 1.5 inches wide and is about 5 inches long from cuff to the tip of the toe. I…
A citrus perperium {Wednesday’s WIP}
I have knit this before. But this time I did a striped yoke and intarsia on the edges so they would all be white (I am crazy). I am loving the bright colors. The crisp white contrasting the colors. I still haven’t decided if I want…