… 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.
Karite, by Svetlana Volkova, is a hat pattern from Wanderlust. I used a merino worsted from January Yarns in the Olivia colorway and I think it works so well…
I wasn’t sure if I’d have anything to show for this year’s Tops, Tanks, and Tees Knit-along. It’s been crazy time around here, so I haven’t had as much knitting…
I really needed this. It’s Black Swan by Tara Shade and it was the thing that took my mind off of a holiday flu/ migraine bummer. Big needles are like my grandmother’s…
… because I’m a homemaker and much of what I make each day gets “unmade” by evening. I have to remember that “being there” for your family is often immeasurable and…
I am running somewhere in Utah or Arizona today so I thought I’d share a little more about my transition into minimal running shoes. I have been inching my way down to…
I showed off all of the finished Junko Okamoto patterns on my podcast early in the year, but I wasn’t finished at the time, and have only now taken time…