… 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 finally knit my husband a pair of socks. Sort of. They’re his and her matching Inniskór slippers from Chelsea Berkompas’ book The Wool Project. Now we’re matchy matchy twins-…
That is just so me, in dress, at least. The little girl in me who hates itchy seams, lace, and having her hair curled on Sunday mornings loves this sweater….
Here’s some progress on my Blowing Snow Cardigan for the MidwesternKnits KAL. I really liked the yarn used in the sample, but my budget didn’t allow for it at the…
So I spent a couple of late evenings with the lace on this and found myself almost through Week 5’s goal. Isn’t the honeybee or “moth” stitch beautiful? (I love…
Even with my new self-imposed bedtime, I still managed to finish one thing for both the Selfish Sweater KAL and the Tops, Tanks, and Tees KAL. It’s the Fire Opal…
We usually just go out to eat for Valentine’s Day, buy some chocolates for ourselves and our kids, and eat too much of everything. I hadn’t thought of doing anything…