Knitting baby socks have been a kind of salvation for me lately. I have managed to finish three pairs in the month of January alone (two pair of these). I have accomplished what I never thought I could way back in 1981: knitting an entire sock from memory – no pattern. The purple socks pictured [...]

Working two jobs with the possibility of a credential program on the horizon, leaves precious little time for knitting.  This blog post will hopefully reassure you that I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. Not yet anyway. I knit the “Noro” scarf above using Mochi Plus instead of Noro and it was such [...]

Here’s another plea for help from your intrepid knitter. It finally got cold enough to wear a sweater but my beloved sweater quickly grew pills. Ok so yes, this is “cheap” wool that I use often (Paton’s Classic Wool Merino) and the entire sweater cost me less than $20, but I am ready to overcome [...]

Sticking fairly close to my schedule of one pair of socks per month, I finished July’s pair and slapped them on my favorite sock model, my niece, Charlotte. She actually interrupted her bath to come out and visit (Max was there too). As for the socks, well there’s not a whole lot to tell. They [...]

This sweater is easy and should have been finished by now. I’ve been working on it for a solid two months. So what’s the hold up? Length. I couldn’t decide how long to make the body so I put the stitches on some scrap yarn, and started a sleeve. Now I can’t decide how long [...]

Before I left Portland I got these new babies courtesy of the generous folks at Close Knit. Thank you Sally, Adrienne, Nancy, Jenny and Elizabeth. I’m so grateful to you all! With the gift certificates I got the Malabrigo Sock you see above (the color is “rayon vert”) and the Malabrigo Lace in “lettuce” pictured [...]

If  you’re a computer user and I’m assuming that you are if you are currently reading this blog, you know that colors are not always true to their offline or “real life” counterparts. Case in point: I had quite a few comments about the colors in my log cabin blanket when the blanket was finally [...]

As I mentioned in the first part of the interview, Nancy always starts with a swatch. Except when she doesn’t. Confused? Read this recent post by Nancy and you’ll understand what I mean. At our recent visit, Nancy brought along a stack of swatches – BIG swatches. I was especially attracted to this, the lovely [...]

Despite my current obsession with all things orange, I haven’t lost my love for the color gray (grey?). I started the Sideways Grande Hat (Ravelry link) from the book Boutique Knits and I’m hoping and praying that I have enough of this [discontinued] Knit Picks Panache to finish it. I have just under three balls [...]

My second Cobblestone Pullover, originally uploaded by alicethelma. On New Year’s Eve, we had a rare dry day around here so I packed up the kids with their xmas knits and we headed to Reed College for a . I’m a little late in blogging about these FOs but I’m very proud of them, especially [...]