Posted in knitting, spinning, tagged boh, cosy, cvm, emerald city, jacob, knitting, roving, spinning, vanilla socks, yarn pirate on July 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I could not stop spinning yesterday. I finished the second bobbin of this gorgeously rich cvm from cosy, and debated plying it right away. Instead, I set this bobbin aside to rest, and dug through my fiber stash.
This is 4 oz. of jacob wool from a farm just outside of town. I picked this up [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged FO, KAL, knitting, socks, socks from the toe up, yarn pirate on June 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Details:
Yarn: Yarn Pirate superwash BFL in the cupcake colorway
Needles: 2 circs, 2.5 mm
Toe: Judy’s Magic Cast on (it really is magic!)
Heel: slip stitch heel, as per pattern
Bind off: Russian Bind off
Size: Medium
Start: June 16th, 10 PM EST
Finish: June 30th, 10 AM EST (whew!)
For those of you who haven’t been following along, I knit these as [...]
Posted in kitchen, knitting, tagged arugula, boh, cilantro, garlic scapes, KAL, kitchen, knitting, lacy ribs sock, omelet, pesto, russian bind-off, sandwich, socks, socks from the toe up, strawberries, yarn pirate on June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I picked 7 quarts of berries this morning. (Notice quart #7 — upper right, not in line with the rest. I learned today that a quart-sized yogurt container fits perfectly into the shallow outer rim of the cupholder in my CRV. Thus, I ate most of a quart on the drive home from the farm. [...]
Posted in CSA veggies, grad school, knitting, tagged judy's magic cast on, KAL, knitting, lacy ribs socks, reading, socks, socks from the toe up, yarn pirate on June 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Have you tried Judy’s Magic Cast On? The instructions in Wendy’s book (printed with Judy’s permission) make this purchase already worth the cost. Here I am, 4 repeats into my first-ever socks on two circulars!
I’m knitting the medium size to account for the stretchiness of the lace. I may also knit a slightly shorter foot [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged blocking, KAL, knitting, socks, socks from the toe up, stripes, whisper, yarn, yarn pirate on June 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
That’s right, folks. I broke out my “scale” yesterday.
I needed to divide some gorgeous yarn pirate superwash bfl in the cupcake colorway into 2 balls in anticipation of today’s events; namely, the arrival of Socks From the Toe Up by Wendy Johnson. I learned of a massive KAL beginning this month and working, month by [...]
Posted in kitchen, knitting, tagged 101cookbooks, ishbel, kitchen, knitting, lace, muffins, sweet potato, yarn pirate on March 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The stockinette portion of Ishbel is absolutely flying! Talk about a satisfying knit. No visible progress to report on my 28thirty sleeves, but I am dutifully working on it at home. It has taken me twice as long to upload photos for this post because I’ve been simultaneously eating half of one of these espresso [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged 28thirty, boh, cast on, ishbel, knitting, lace, peace fleece, yarn pirate, zephyr style on March 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This sleeve is slowly lengthening. Why is it that the closer I get to completing this sweater, the slower my progress looks to me? This project is no longer appropriate for bringing anywhere except a designated knitterly gathering, both because of its size and because of the way I feel like my arms flail about [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged FO, june bug socks, knitting, socks, yarn pirate on November 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Hooray! I love these socks. Not quite done in time to be appropriately celebrated as part of socktoberfest, but still the fastest full-size socks to come off of my needles to date. To review (raveled here): the yarn is Yarn Pirate BFL sock in colorway June Bug. The pattern is one of the basic Ann [...]
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