Cable Cushion, originally uploaded by alicethelma. You get a lot of knitting done!

a gift, originally uploaded by alicethelma. Shhhhh. It’s also a surprise. And here’s progress on the shrug. The shrug is actually finished but I haven’t time to take a photo now. I’ll have Alice model it when it stops snowing – sometime soon we hope!

Hnin, originally uploaded by alicethelma. As I’m writing this it’s actually snowing here. You heard right. April 19th and it’s snowing in Southern Washington. Portland too I’m sure. But my joy is not from the snow. My joy comes from photography and today I had a couple of photo shoots with two Habitat for Humanity [...]

April socks, originally uploaded by alicethelma. I finally finished the March socks but before I did, I had already started on the April pair. This is some unknown yarn (Regia I think) from my stash but it’s already exposing an interesting little pattern. I decided to make these socks the old-fashioned way. The way I [...]

When I finished the Monkey socks over a month ago, it looked like there was enough yarn leftover for one more sock. And there was. Just. Third Monkey, originally uploaded by alicethelma. And so I can happily report that two balls of Knit Picks Essential Solid (231 yards/50 grams) will yield three socks of the [...]

March socks in progress, originally uploaded by alicethelma. I finally got past the heels and I’m in the home stretch of the March socks. And while these are not the prettiest socks I’ve ever made, I did realize that they comprise pair number 20. That’s right folks – a landmark moment. This is the 20th [...]