… 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.
I have tiny celebrations in December. Not the biggies, like a big turkey dinner with the family on Christmas Day. I mean little things that only I know about that…
I had some bulkier yarn for this hat, but I really wanted to see this Tosh Vintage in Mockingjay worked in that exact cable stitch. So, I tweaked the Omemee…
In Episode 2018 I wrap up all the sweater and shawl knits of 2018, plus my finished Phoenix sweater. We talk about the importance of recording what i make and you share favorite knits and how you have modified them or might modify them.
I have a few Christmas yarns in my stash, but all of them were debatably Christmasy. You know, they were great colorways- some with vintage pastel speckles, one with movie…
My first project for the Tops, Tanks, and Tees KAL is the May cardigan. Oh yeah, I haven’t even been on here enough to talk about the knit-along and now…