… 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-…
In Episode 42 I talk about my giant hand knit socks that I made as stockings and other non-traditional ideas for celebrating Christmas you all gave me while our home is being repaired. Plus there are lots of WIPs and my scrappy blanket make-along project.
A random assortment of things I did in 2014 via my Instagram feed, and in no particular order: I stared at dog paws knitted a lot, duh. visited with grandpas…
Sentimentality clutters. I know because at least once a year I have to force myself to winnow through stacks of books, papers, and future projects so that my husband can’t…
I’m past the halfway point in my cardigan for the Downton Knitalong. Which means all of the picking up of stitches and seaming lace is done. The rest is just…
This is the more subtle, natural answer to the very shiny, artificial Christmas wreath I made for Christmas. It’s a spring wreath that I made for my grandmother with grapevine…