To all of you librarians and especially current library students out there: have any of you noticed that Amazon is adding more and more products and/or searching capabilities? I was doing a search today (it is scaring me that I thought to search Amazon first rather than the hassle of doing a database […]
So aside from the fact that I suck at lace, what is with all the charts? I am trying to do a relatively simple lace project and I can’t even read the 4 line, 10 stitch chart! Then I finally got my Interweave Knits today and found another lacy shrug (I finally got […]
Square 35 from Barbara Walker’s Learn to Knit Afghan, Lacing Cable
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Square 34 from Barbara Walker’s Learn to Knit Afghan, Double Cables
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Square 48 from Barbara Walker’s Learn to Knit Afghan, Vine Leaf Panel
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Okay, sure, this is my “day off”, but I just can’t stop to take a nap! My MIL took the older two to the Tech Museum in San Jose and IM is sleeping so I should be too, but there are just so many things to finish, knitting-wise!
I just love Barbara Walker’s “Learn to Knit […]
I think I found it … the yarn to use for my A Good Bias shrug. I’m a big fan of Knitpicks.com, and even though they have a new yarn (”Crayon”) that looks cool, it looks way too much like Mission Falls 1824 Cotton which I hate knitting with (but it might work for […]
Here’s an update of my knitting projects, since they change daily and I don’t have the time yet to set up one of those fill bars for works in progress. DS3’s baby blanket, maybe 20% done. Secret Mother’s Day project, 1/7 of the way done (what percentage is that? Anyway, it’s more like […]
I really wanted to keep up with OR’s new words since he has just really started talking (at about 2 years) but of course I get so fixated and distracted by knitting (I had to put down the sweater I am trying to knit in order to get him lunch and write this!) that I […]
So I was just about to start Interweave Knits’ “A Good Bias” shrug, when I look at the pattern and *gasp*, charts! I can’t even do a gauge swatch without doing some major calculations. So to the bottom of the pile it goes.
Then I am randomly going to Knitty.com to look at old patterns […]