Main

July 01, 2008

Mmmm, beads!

The first things I ever knit were Barbie clothes. Having mastered those, somehow I wasn't at all intimidated by the thought of upscaling A Lot to make a jersey for myself. So almost the first things I ever knit were adult-sized sweaters (this was around age 14 I think; there was a bit of a break between Barbie and really diving into knitting, but not that much; I took a long time to give up on Barbie). I totally skipped the knit accessories stage; I think the first accessories I ever made were done in the past year or so. So this lace ribbon scarf is - to the best of my recollection - only the third scarf I've ever made. Wait, the fourth, if you include the mobius. (I gotta make me another mobius. Too much fun! I want a Prickle.*)

Anyway, so having gone about it all a bit backwards and learnt to knit scarves so very long after doing big complicated jerseys, you know what I find?

Scarves are BORING.

Of course, there's a place in the world for boring knitting. Really there is. But wow, this thing is starting to drag. It's a two-skein scarf and having just recently joined the second ball, I found myself pretty oppressed at the thought of just how much longer I have to keep going, without any funky shaping or plot twists to hold my attention.

So I thought maybe I'd chuck in some beads to make things a bit more interesting. What do you think? Will these do?

sangriabeads.jpg

____
* Have you noticed that we have a smattering of patterns for sale, now? Lovely Orata offered them to me, and I'm really excited because I think they go so well with some of our yarns. I'm hoping to bring you more patterns and kits in due course.

May 25, 2008

Rainy days and Sundays...

...don't bring me down at all. In fact, they're rather wonderful. A quiet, wet day, with rain against the window and coffee in the pot... bliss. Don't you think? Especially if you have knitting in your hand.

I don't, as it happens, but maybe I'll get to settle down on the couch later and spend some quality time with the Gilmore Girls. First, a little work. You know how I said I was devoting two weeks to catching up on stuff? How do you think that went? Yeah, almost that well. Not that I haven't made progress; I have. I just have to acknowledge that, like housework, there really isn't ever a point at which things are Done. Oh well. Never mind all that - let me show you something. Did you know I knit? It's true! Look, proof:

lacysocks.jpg

Finished at last; and with the weather still so changeable, I might yet get to wear them out before September. Hurrah!
Pattern: Susan Gutperl's Lacy Cables Knee Socks
Yarn: Indigo Moon sock yarn in Blue Spruce. This was a Christmas gift from the lovely Gabrielle and inspired me to start stocking Indigo Moon. (As it happens, this colour is from the Vancouver Series (chemical dyes) and I chose to stock her natural dyed yarns, but the Nature's Harvest would work very well in this pattern too.)
Mods: I lengthened and expanded the calf shaping to accommodate my big chunky calf muscles (I'd like to blame all that running, but in fact I was just born chunky) - an extra 3 pattern repeats vertically, plus a few extra purl stitches to maintain the usual 2st column between repeats. I also made a shallow toe, which I've decided is totally the way to go (who has such long and pointy toes as the standard sock calls for? Please!), but then this pattern's attitude to toes and heels is pretty much "eh, you know this part", so I'm not sure this counts as a mod.

I've completed a couple of other things too, recently. I made Armin a long-promised washcloth.
washcloth.jpg
The browny yarn is Colinette Banyan - a cotton/viscose blend, very soft and lovely. I think it's made a great washcloth, especially in combination with the pure cotton (a hard-to-find but fabulous South African brand called Vinni's Colours). I can't quite decide whether a pure Banyan washcloth would be too soft, or utterly lovely. Someone find out for me, would you?

And I finished something that I'm rather proud of - but you'll have to wait a while to see it. Let me show you instead what I'm working on right now. There's the gorgeous Lace Ribbon Scarf, using Handmaiden's Swiss Mountain Silk Cashmere; everything about this project is a treat.
sangriascarf2.jpg

There's socks for Armin in a good, manly brown with a good, manly simple stitch pattern. Looking pretty good. (Old Maiden Aunt merino sock yarn in Black Coffee; Primavera pattern.)
primsock.jpg

There's something incubating in Indigo Moon's gorgeous wild silk - I played with this for a while, trying a few things, waiting to see what the yarn wanted to be. I think it has finally spoken. And if I'm right, this is the last you'll see of it for a while.
madlace.jpg

Same applies to this. But this one I'm pretty sure of. Interestingly, both of these New Sekrit Projekts involve my learning the same new-to-me technique (one of them with an Added Twist). Hurrah for new techniques and all, but if I decide I really hate it, that'll be two projects screwed up instead of just one. Sucker for punishment, moi?
stripey.jpg

Arguably, I shouldn't even bother showing you these secrets-in-progress. But I want to for two reasons. One, to try to convince you that I *am* a real knitter, I *do* have things on the go, even when I don't show them to you for ages. It's not all just an elaborate con to sell yarn, honest.

Two, as illustration of an idea I have. But I think I'll have to germinate that properly and share it with you tomorrow.

April 26, 2008

A knittea party

This afternoon was a special occasion: the first Purlescence Open House. I opened my doors for a few eager knitters to come and hang out, drink tea, knit together, and oh yes... maybe do a little shopping.

We had a great time. Mel brought some amazing brownies. I meant to take photos, but was too busy having fun... sorry! Anyway, all was going well; there was a little civilised yarn fondling, a little sharing of knitting tips and showing off of FOs, a lot of cookie eating (or was that just me?). Good times.

And then I suggested that maybe people wanted to take a peek at the stockroom.

Wow.

Apparently a handful of really excited knitters seems like a lot more than a handful; Armin flatly refused to believe there weren't at least double the actual number of us running upstairs and squealing. Drawers were pulled out. People were squatting on the floor rifling through the goods, oohing and aahing at what they discovered. (Earlier, Stephanie - a new Ravelry friend - had asked excitedly: "Are you going to stock rosewood needles?" Oh, my dear, what you don't know...) There was squeezing, and stroking, and dithering, and a fair amount of cooing and sighing. And then there was begging. "Will you do this again, Robynn?" "Can we come back?" "Please!" "I'll make more brownies!"

Brownies? Oh all right then.

I'm thinking of making it a monthly event. The next one should be on Saturday 23 May. If you want to join the mailing list, please leave a comment. I would really love to meet more of you!

January 06, 2008

Resolute

One of my New Year's Resolutions was to take Sundays off. Which, honestly, is more of a challenge than it sounds. Working from home tends to fuzz the boundaries a bit; I figured I could use some designated me time (knitting! woo!), and with that to look forward to, maybe it would be easier to knuckle down when appropriate too.

I'm pleased to report that on this, the first Sunday of the year, I have in fact done no work whatsoever. Go me! (Although to achieve this, I had to work till 2am last night, breaking another resolution. Whatev. I'll take it.)

Instead of working, I have of course been knitting (some of it while watching Bugsy Malone), but I also decided to play with the camera a little to see what would happen.

camelpronweb.jpg

Apparently I can occasionally take a pretty picture. Who knew?
(That's Camelspin, by the way. Five days to go...)

Harvey wasn't all that impressed with my newfound skillz. But maybe he's just feeling a little overexposed.

kittysocks.jpg

(Modelling Armin's Wollmeise socks. Making progress on those too.)

December 31, 2007

The year in knitting

At the start of 2007, I had certain knitty goals. I wanted to learn to make socks. I wanted to knit from a pattern or two, and see what I could learn from that. I wanted to make a moebius. I wanted to master circular needles and DPNs. Mostly, I just wanted, come December, to have more knitting to show for my 12 months than I have had in recent history.

I think I've done remarkably well. Indulge me while I review my year's knitting. (Or, you know, don't. You could always wander over to the sale instead...)

Continue reading "The year in knitting" »

December 01, 2007

A wandering eye

Remember I said once that I'm a monogamous knitter? And then I discovered the joys of promiscuity? I'm starting to wonder if I should maybe rein it back a bit. I mean, yes to socks on the train, yes to the Big Jersey Project by the couch, but after that it gets a bit... messy. There's the scarf in the kitchen (you know, for while the pasta's boiling), and the spare socks that decorate my already messy desk but are really just a back-up commuter project, and that's fine and all, but now I'm starting to have lustful thoughts about Other Knitting. Is that wrong?

These are what I cast on to follow my lovely Pompous spiral socks.

cindersstart.jpg

Cinders Secret Stockings. The yarn is gorgeous, you know how pretty the pattern is, and on top of all that I have extra motivation to work on these because when I'm done, I'll be able to add my mods (for size large) to the pattern. Which would be great. There's nothing not to like. Only...

mittstobe.jpg

This may look like just a ball of yarn to you, but to me, it's a pair of much needed handwarmers. In a fantastically springtime colour, to remind me that the sun will return. This, my friends, is what a queue jump looks like.

queuejump.jpg

And this little upstart is a Cheshire Cat Stole.

phoenix.jpg

Can't you just see it? There is no reason to cast this on now. None at all. Other than that it'll be so gorgeous, and the fiery colours are just what I need in the middle of winter, and I've been dying to do some lace for the longest time... but other than that, no reason.

So far I'm managing to keep this under control by simply not winding it. Can't knit it from the skein, can I? (Well... I could, and I have been known to do so... but with cats? No.) Wish me strength.

November 23, 2007

Alive and knitting

Never mind all that shop talk. Let me show you some knitting.

For a few weeks I've been working on Ysolda's gorgeous Snow White. I'm using teal Alchemy wool/silk, and it's looking fantastic. Well, the yarn is, I can't tell about the shaping yet. I'm just a leetle bit worried about the length/tightness... I decided to add 10cm on general principles, because shorter tops are not flattering on me, and also, me wide. Me busty. This means I tend to lose a bit of length in a lot of styles. (Both because the fabric gets pulled out a bit more, and because my ample bosom steals vertical as well as horizontal inches.) But, here's the flaw: Ysolda's pattern, while wonderfully detailed in many respects, has one strange omission: no length measurement that I can find. Not on the schematic, not in the text. So I may have underestimated; and now I'm worrying about the advisability of having fairly snug ribbing right over my least favourite body part - the belly.

(In fact, the further I get with this, the less advisable I think it is. I'm not at my slimmest - that's an understatement. And while this style would probably work on me when I am at my slimmest, right now, there's a bit too much of me to be wearing something so ... figure-hugging. But, bloody minded as ever, I'm chugging along. And will no doubt end up with something that will go straight into the "when I've lost a couple of stone" pile at the back of the cupboard. It's so pretty though!

snowbody.jpg

(Aside: this being in the round, and involving some elegantly complex shaping, I had to break the habit of a lifetime and use stitch markers. Which has yielded an interesting discovery. The little fishy stitch markers from Heidi Petach? Are *wonderful*. I didn't especially like them in the bag, but on the needle they seriously come to life, swimming through the air most delightfully. Plus, it probably helps that their turquoise beads match my yarn!)

fishy.jpg

September 26, 2007

Knitty happiness all round.

I still don't have any pictures.

There, thought I might as well get that out of the way first. All the good pictures (knitting and holiday) are on Armin's computer, and he's been pretty busy. (Make that "sick, and then busy".) Now that he's mostly better, and almost past his personal scary deadline, I'll start nagging him to pass them on.

Also to pose, because his socks have finally been finished. There, Gabrielle, you can relax now. He gets warm feet after all. And tonight I'll order the yarn for his second pair - when the Wollmeise opens her brand new shop. (I must admit I'm going to miss those bouncing balls from her old site, but go Wollmeise!) So he'll get even warmer tootsies soon enough. Oh, and he likes them. Yay! He also likes very much the test washcloth I made in Cape Town - on which subject, more another day. With pictures.

So that's part of the happiness - the socks of doom are done, and my beloved approves of his knitting. But more than that, I am basking in a very unaccustomed sense of general knitty productivity. Consider my list of FOs for September (many of which will get pictures and explanations, um, really soon now I promise):

Cara's wedding shrug
My bridesmaid bolero (which falls rather on the ugh side, but it did the job)
Cara's tiara
My first washcloth
Socks of doom.

Not bad, eh? And of course Jess was done just before September started. Go me!

I admit it's not a very impressive list, compared with some. Even compared with my own rate of progress, back when I was a slack-ass student and could churn out a (self-designed) sweater a month. They're all titchy little things. But compared with last year, when I really felt like I was knitting Nothing At All but very slowly, it's practically warp speed.

So right now, I get to plan my next projects. This queue bears very little resemblance to my Ravelry queue (but is much more accurate), and if you want more details on any of them, well, you'll just have to wait now won't you dear?

Finish my lovely moebius
Get beyond the cast-on with my lovely Pompous socks
Cashmere scarf
Mmmm... Clapotis?
Mystery jacket
Snow White
Armin's second socks
Armin's washcloth

Heavens, how long will it take me to make progress with all that! Maybe it'll help if I channel the gorgeous, inspiring, scenic calm of my Cape Town holiday.

rainbowwhale.jpg

See... that's why it's worth waiting for the good pictures.
The good pictures (Armin's pictures) have whales in them. The bad pictures (mine) only have Armin in the process of taking good pictures.
I don't think we have any pictures that have knitting and whales, though. I'm sorry.

August 21, 2007

Yup. That was summer. Over now.

O'course the good thing about these cool, grey, drizzly days is that my cats get ever so affectionate. And who am I to complain about fluffy company... everywhere I go... every single step... draped over my wrists as I type... well, I admit, it's not very conducive to productivity. But damn, they cute.

Talking of cute: How adorable is this dancing robot? Lil guy's got rhythm.

Ahem. Back to the topic (such as it is). Yes, so, it's distinctly autumnal all of a sardine. And my pleasure in this fact makes me realise: I have finally adjusted to the English climate. (Hey, only five years... that's not bad, right?) After bitching and whining every single summer that it's just not enough, it's not reliable enough, it's not nearly long enough... well, this summer was about the most unreliable and certainly short-lived that I've yet experienced, and you know? The lovely, sunny days we had recently just confused me. I didn't quite know how to dress or what to do. Now it's all damp and miserable again, I feel strangely relieved. Boots! Scarves! I can handle this.

And of course knitting. I am thinking about warm woolly stitches almost every minute of the day... so about 10 minutes more than usual, then. Really, I'm obsessed. And newly driven to actually Get Stuff Done. Which means being more productive with my work time, so that I can allow myself to take some knitting time. That's a win-win idea.

There's an interesting discussion on Ravelry about how to knit faster. It's wandered from the usual continental/English debate* on to project fidelity (or lack thereof). It's interesting to me that now I've learned the joys of having a project in every room (well, nearly), all in different stages of completion and of different levels of complexity, I actually seem to be making better progress than when I was focused on just one thing - which you might have thought would make for faster completion. But of course there's a great advantage to having something ready to just pick up at any convenient moment, even if your big sweater/lace shawl/bed-sized afghan is at an awkward stage. And there's another factor too: enthusiasm. Sometimes getting stuck in a dreary bit of a big project turns you off knitting generally, at least for a while, unless you have other fun things to distract you.

What about knitting smarter, though? Particularly as regards design. I wonder whether I would need to reinstate a little project monogamy if I wanted to actually create a new design, one with a bit of detail and structure to it, one that requires some mental focus. I guess there's only one way to find out. Folks, consider this a vow: I will, before the year is out, get cracking on the cute swingy asymmetrical cabled jacket that is haunting my dreams...

But right now, I have a wedding shrug to deal with. I started swatching with my beautiful Kid Silk lace last night and suddenly I realise (being a bit slow on the uptake) that I might have rather more work on my hands than expected. Yes yes, you may all laugh now, you old KSH hands; I know it's notorious stuff. But I honestly didn't realise. Wish me luck.

(And just when my denim jacket was going so well... I'm halfway through the second sleeve. What are my chances of finishing the damn thing before 6 September? Considering I have this damn shrug to deal with, and preferably two, in case the colours don't match? Dammit.)

_____
* Which included some links to videos and such, which I perused because I've been wondering how people can say it's easier to rib continental-style when I find it so hard, and that's encouraged me to try it again, and we'll** report back on that later. But I also looked at Annie Modesitt's animations on her "combined method" and I'm now thoroughly confused. Her purl is indeed the way I tried continental purl, which is smooth and simple and gets the stitch sat the wrong way round on the needle. (Bummer.) But her knit... can anyone explain to me how that is different to a regular, English-style knit stitch? Or continental. I dunno. You can't really see how the yarn is held. Edit: I think I've just answered my own question, taking another look at it. The stitch is, indeed, sat differently on the needle, because of the purl stitch. Is that really the only difference? Sometimes I'm amazed at how much fuss gets made over tiny little details like that.
** No, I'm not sure why I sometimes lapse into the royal we when blogging either. But indulge me, would you? Us. Indulge us. We are amused by it.

August 14, 2007

*sigh*

Eh.

So I'm supposed to be showing you some knitting right? ...Eh. Whatever.

*deep sigh*

The denim jacket's coming along, I'm onto the first sleeve now.

denim-back.jpg
I'm a bit worried that it's going to come out too big. I picked the biggest size, based on my bust, but the thing is I'm a busty girl; the rest of me isn't necessarily in proportion. Maybe a little negative ease would have been something to consider. Well, let's hope all that ribbing does its job and pulls things in nicely. How does denim ribbing behave once it's been washed? Anybody? I rather think I'm going to have a sack on my hands.

sleeve.jpg

(Shrug? Oh yes, shrug. Deadlines. Yeah. Well, I've found possibly the perfect yarn for that, in this week's Posh sale, so I'll crack on when that arrives. Hooray for excuses to carry on with my jacket!)

burning.jpg

The sock is progressing slowly. I am SO VERY BORED of this now.

shepsockprog.jpg

So I've cast on for another sock. Or more accurately, for a swatch for what will be another sock. (Didn't exactly get very far. Supper was ready.) I just wanted to check that, when doing a pretty pattern - Spiral boot socks from Interweave - and using scrummy yarn, socks are still fun.

emspiralswatch.jpg

Eh. They might be. I can't tell yet.

So, right, forget all that now. (It won't be hard. It wasn't that interesting.) What do you do when you feel... well... crappy? Assuming (purely for the purposes of argument) that part of the crappy might be described as "fat", so chocolate is not necessarily the answer? (I know. Sacrilege.) And further assuming that you have a metric shitload of work to do, so - even more heretical - knitting might not really fit into the schedule either?

August 06, 2007

Was that summer?

Well, we had a lovely weekend, good thing I didn't blink and miss it. The clouds are back in the sky today. (Obviously. This morning I put a load of washing in.) Which makes me doubly pleased that I was just a little bit naughty... I stole a good few hours from work to sit out in the garden, knitting and reading Harry Potter*. Yes, this is how I rebel these days. (Come to think of it, it's much like how I rebelled at school, too: knitting instead of homework. I'm so wild.)

This is what I was knitting on.

jess-fronts.jpg
Remember that denim jacket I started in, um, April or so? Remember my cold feet? Remember I said I'd just tweak the Jess pattern a bit? Here's a first: I'm not tweaking. I'm knitting it exactly as is. For novelty value. And also, um, laziness.

(How's that rolling, eh? I'm planning on making this project, not just my first ever true-to-pattern knit, but also my first blocking job. Really. I've done all right without it all these years, but it's time to stop being so damn lazy.)

I'm enjoying it (which explains how I've raced through two fronts in a week - yes dears, that is racing, at least considering my schedule), despite being irritated by the lack of photographs in the pattern,** the stiffness of the yarn and the way it makes my hands blue. On the other hand, after working on titchy little 2.25mm sock needles, these 4mm sticks are positively chunky! Loving that, oh yes. While the titchy little socks...

armin-socks.jpg
Well. Um. Yeah, they're fine and all, whatever. Can I stop now?

No, no I can't. This is the first ever pair of socks I'm making for my lovely Armin (although clearly not the last; did I mention he's requested his very own cosy socks, in Wollmeise Tiefersee?) and dammit, I will finish them. Doomed as the little bastards are. Y'see, I been lazy, and I been dumb. I finished the first sock, cast off, and he couldn't pull it on. Cast off too tight. So I put that aside, figuring I'd deal with the cast off thing later, and did the next one. Didn't quite get around to redoing the cast off meanwhile; didn't even check whether it fit if I pulled the cast off out. So. Finished the second sock, complete with stretchy cast off. Tried to pull it on. It didn't. Bummer. Wasn't the cast off that was the problem...

So I pull the sock back to the heel, add a few stitches for a deeper heel, turn the heel, start working up the leg in k3, p1 rib. It's going to be a long slog back up. (Have I mentioned I hate ribbing on dpns? Really do.) But hey. We'll get there. Then, attempting to demonstrate to a friend how I screwed up, I pull the too-tight sock on my foot...

Hang on. It totally goes on. Apparently this is what I get for knitting drunk.***

Still, Armin would like it a bit easier to pull on (fair enough), so it's not a bad idea to be reknitting. Also, they're too short. (I did confer with him on the length, but it looks a lot shorter on the leg. All part of learning to be a sock knitter, I guess.) Still. Damn.

And while I've been steaming ahead on Jess, and plodding ahead on the socks (they're my train knit, which means I have to choose between reading and socking; at the moment Harry Potter is winning), here's what I should have been working on.

goldiehair-shrug.jpg

The wedding shrug for my bestest friend, getting married in Cape Town in September. As you can see, I'm not exactly racing on this one. I do have an excuse though: this is not our first choice of yarn. It's to match a "red/gold" shot taffeta dress, which, being in Cape Town and all, I haven't seen. I have seen some very dodgy photos, and a tiny - 1cm x 3cm - scrap of fabric. But you know what shot taffeta's like. That little scrap looks kind of purple/yellow, rather than red or gold. The photos look quite orangey. She swears the actual dress, in normal light, is none of these things, and I believe her. So how to pick a yarn? This Goldiehair has flashes of what is probably exactly the right colour - but overall it's pretty dark, and she's not mad about the idea of a dark shrug. The Silk Rhapsody I was using for my Moebius is maybe closer to the dress; but the fabric scrap gave me the idea that it would be close but not close enough, and you know how crappy it looks to have a bad colour match; that made me think I'd do better to have a contrast, not a match, because that's easier to fudge.

So I've found a couple of slightly lighter red/gold-ish colourways in Colinette mohair, and ordered them (just one ball of each - I have no idea what the yardage is anyway - and with luck they'll arrive promptly, and one of those will do, and I can buy more, and get cracking). Oh, I should probably finish the Goldiehair one anyway, though. To go with my (garnet red) bridesmaid dress. Yup... I should get going right away.

If only Jess weren't so very, very appealing right now...

PS I still owe you yarn photos. Oops. Okay, here we go: evidence of my late spendies.

hellomerinolace.jpg
BFL laceweight from Hello Yarn - arrived with my nostepinde. (Because clearly it would be Bad and Wrong to order something from a yarny all the way in America and not grab the chance to sample her wares at the same time. Right?) I'm planning to use this for my first lace shawl; I've been hesitant about the whole lace thing, because I'm not sure how wearable it is in my wardrobe. But the challenge of it all is getting to me. So I spent a good while browsing the Interweb, looking for the perfect lace shawl pattern, and I saw quite a few lovely things, and developed an instant and intense desire to make the Peacock Shawl... but that of course will require quite different yarn. After all my research, Dee's Fir Cone photos appear to have swung the deciding vote. Funny, I never had any desire to make this shawl along with everyone else, but I rather think it'll be perfect for this particular yarn. ...Then I just need to figure out how to wear the damn thing.

And then we come to my Posh indiscretions. Ah yes. It's clear that my sock enthusiasm has not been entirely squashed by the shepherd socks of doom.

poshempompous.jpg
Emily, in Pompous. Intended for those lovely lacy boot socks in the last Interweave.

poshcollection.jpg
And finally, left to right: Emily, Bed of Roses; Lucia, Devoted (way less bright than it looks - Photoshop failed me); and Emily again, in Offbeat and Ripen. The Lucia is a present for my sister, whom I am welcoming back into the knitting fold with enthusiasm, and presents. Although I am finding it very, very, very hard to let go of this particular skein. It's delicious.


_____
* No spoilers please! I'm actually just working my way through the series, refreshing my memory for the final instalment. Which I will be reading aloud to Armin in the evening, as he washes up. It's a longstanding tradition; and don't mock, it means I get out of doing the dishes.
** One photo. One. About five centimetres deep. No detail shots, no back shots... nada. So frankly, this is going to be a voyage of discovery, this knit.
*** Not actually joking, no. I finished this sock - and attempted to try it on - in the late stages of a barbecue last weekend. Sitting on the table. I want to say this wasn't actually as weird as it sounds, but what do I know? I'd had a few gallons of Bombay Flowers. I couldn't even pull on a damn sock.

July 08, 2007

Quite a lot of pictures. Also some words.

Helloooo knitters! I've missed you. The past couple of weeks have been... interesting. As I mentioned, my mother was in town; a big personality in a small flat. She is a lovely, sweet, generous woman, but remarkably exhausting to be around. And of course I've had very little time to tend to my usual business. But I'm back; and this morning the sun was shining, Beloved was sleeping (so his camera was untended), and I figured that would be the perfect opportunity to take some decent pictures for once. You know what I found out?

Even with a great camera and in beautiful sunshine, I still can't take decent pictures of knitting. So my hat is off to all of you who make it look so easy. I will just never be one of those yarn pr0n superstars (you know the ones I mean... the ones who make you want to reach into your screen and touch their knitting). My pictures are strictly for information, not excitement.

With that disclaimer in mind... wanna see some knitting?

Continue reading "Quite a lot of pictures. Also some words." »