I’m making a delayed resolution to post more entries here. So, to appease those of you who are trying to keep tabs on me, I’ll start with a status update, then treat you to a snippet of craftiness.
DC was fun and all, but I couldn’t resist the teasing wintry winds of Michigan, so I [...]
Hello from sunny DC. I can hardly believe it’s January here with all these temps in the 40’s and more than the occasional snatch of sunshine. Not the type to take anything by storm, Liz and I are easing into our new environment.
We usually start off the day with coffee, knitting, and sudoku.
Our preferred plan [...]
Apparently, ’tis the season for hats. I can’t stop myself! Not to mention I’ve finally started selling a few at Maude Vintage, a great little shop here in Columbia. Knowing there are folks out there who want them has certainly been incentive to keep the sewing machine running.
In the last couple of weeks, the combined [...]
This morning’s work is done:
As my first successful attempt at a variation on Cory’s pattern, I figured he might as well be the recipient…if he’ll have it. This fabric is from an old hand-made, extensively pleated wool skirt that I scrounged from a thrift store. The zipper was broken, so I didn’t have any qualms [...]
My crocheting sister and I have an arrangement: if she sees a knitting pattern and loves it Just So Much, she acquires the yarn, sends it to me, and expects to wear the finished product within, oh, the next 5 years, depending on how much the excitement has spilled over into my territory. And it [...]
This one goes out to my favourite Hogetwerp, because apparently I’m a lazy-ass blogger and don’t post enough. I know so far this blog is a little heavy on the produce, but it’s summer, so no apologies. When it gets colder and I feel like modeling cozy knitted things, you’ll start seeing more warm stuff up [...]
I can hardly believe what I picked today.
Then I chopped them up and put them in a soup with fresh basil, parsley, and zucchini. If you have the cookbook Simply in Season, it’s the Zucchini Garden Chowder recipe on page 93. If you don’t have it, you need to buy it asap.
So that’s the culinary. [...]
I told you I’d be posting this year’s finished projects, and I finally had a bright enough day here to get my picture taken outside with my very colourful new jacket.
This here pattern is Veronik Avery’s “Mosaic Yoke Jacket” out of Color Style from Interweave Press.
Behold the neck decreasing! The side decreases and increases look [...]
Well, these little garments were quite a hit, if I do say so myself. Boy is wearing the “Oz Vest” in the 6-month size, pattern from Natural Knits for Babies and Moms by Louisa Harding. I used a discontinued cotton yarn from Crystal Palace, called Cotton Flamme. It was a slubby yarn, which accounts for the [...]
I’m brand new at this, and I’m not even sure I’ll be able to attach a photo to make things a little more visually interesting for you. But I’m to going to start getting used to this by posting about the projects I have done this year.
Before I moved Down South (Missouri is classified as [...]