I started as a little blob of acrylic yarn that was left over from various baby projects. Then, round after round, stuffing after stuffing, my shapes started to appear. Oh, at first, I was just a head.
My head, some stuffing, a crochet hook and a stitch marker…
But I kept growing!… Soon, my body was finished. [...]
When I started knitting again, I had been on a knitting break of about 5 years. And I was in another country. What I knew in the past was now almost irrelevant. The easy part was to (re-)learn to read knitting patterns in English. There are so many great knitting websites around here that it [...]
My Seaweed socks are finished! I can’t believe it took me less than a month from start to finish. This feat has been achieved thanks to my Little One whose sleeps patterns have become much more regular. I now have at least 1 hour every evening solely devoted to knitting! GREAT! Nothing like knitting to [...]
I have finally finished my Bitterroot shawlette. The knitting had been finished for nearly a month (see this earlier post), but it needed to be washed and blocked to be considered fully finished.
I bought some blocking wires, which helped a lot. But I think I could have blocked it even harder. I did block the [...]
2010 will be the year of the sock. I have just finished my first pair of toe-up socks. They use a short rows heel and toes. They are plain stockinette stitch except the cuff which uses a 2×2 rib pattern. Nothing special about them, but they are saved by the self patterning yarn: Galaxy from [...]