… and I won’t knit for nobody but me. You know, like the song… Love Machine… anyway.. that’s me, lately, working for nobody but me.
I am finally making Georgia by Jane Richmond. Aren’t those little pleats the best? This is the sort of detail I admire her work for. I could just close my eyes and blindly point to anything on her pattern page and love it. It’s all the kind of thing I’d wear. So far I’ve made the Jane hat and the Oatmeal Pullover twice (One is in a horrible color that I consider a “play” sweater for when I wouldn’t want a “real” sweater to get messed up.)
Check out the Gynx faded denim sock yarn I’m using. I love the subtle color variations. I was concerned that the lack of shaping wouldn’t be flattering on me, but I’m two thirds of the way down the body and tried it on to find a really comfortable fit. The true test will be the armholes. These massive biceps of mine need extra room to swing freely. Actually, I just spaz out if I feel constricted in any way by my clothing.
This had been good tv knitting. My sister slips over, here and there, to watch Downton Abbey with me as I work on it. Yeah, I know. I can’t help but watch it, even with Matthew’s melodramatic walking out of his wheelchair scene and O’Brien’s twisting of her mustache.
Literally. I knew I would end up doing this. I just knew, deep down, that no matter how much I budgeted my time and planned my holiday knitting, this would…
It is big, fuzzy, and very warm, thus it’s destined to be a favorite over baggy jeans. This Isabell Kraemer pattern was my first Summer Sweater Knitalong entry and also…
Follow my snuggly bouclé V-Neck sweater’s transition from 90’s Pinterest inspo, to a vest pattern, to budget yarns, to the perfect retro sweater it became.
Here’s how to use a motley collection of stash to recreate a #famousknit from How I Met Your Mother. that doubles as an ugly Christmas sweater. There’s the usual podcast chatter as I finish my sweater and try a weirdo armpit fix. Now you can make your own moose sweater and be cool like me. Sigh.
You know all those sock scrap memory blankets you see all over knitting sites? You know how they take forever, but still considerably less time than a Beekeeper’s Quilt? Well,…