Bellwether

I’ve got my next big knitting project lined up–a lap blanket for my Uncle Ken. I managed to find some good superwash merino at Elann in dark brown and garnet, and this pattern is just about perfect. It’s not too fiddly, it’s done in strips (so I can take it on my commute), [...]

About 32 yards. I figure I need at least 150 for a hat, sigh. This looks to be ranging from worsted to bulky weight–It’s fairly loosely spun and it really fuzzy. I’m looking forward to working with it. As soon as I get enough, that is. I really think I’m [...]

So I’ve finally decided what I’m going to do with that red merino/silk and the grey Romney/Finn that’s I’ve been playing with for the last couple of weeks. I’m going to make a grey hat with red trim:

Of course, I still need to spin it all up, and make sure that I’m not spinning [...]

That’s the finished Nakiska. If I make it again, I’m going tomake some modifications to the pattern: instead of repeating rows 1-4 of the pattern before the decrease round, only repeat rows 1-3; instead of three rows of seed stitch at the end, only do two roudns and bind off in pattern. It [...]

Mac is a bad, bad, bad influence:

That’s right, I got down with my bad self and some Kool-Aid after work. I split a skein of Lion Brand Fisherman’s Wool in half (give or take a bit) and mixed up a ton of grape Kool-Aid for the purple:

It didn’t turn out as dark as I [...]