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Archive for March, 2007

Best Birthday Present Ever

Posted in Knitting on March 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »

My birthday presents arrived today (a month and a half early). I’m starting to wonder if this knitting-geek thing has gone too far. Behold my wooden swift: Gaze upon my new wool winder: Attend, ye, my perfect center-pull yarn cakes: I’m going to go root through the rest of my stash and see if there [...]

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Going up to Eleven

Posted in TKGA, tagged on March 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I, along with a couple of my knitterly friends, have decided to take the knitting geekiness to the next level by joing the Knitting Guild Association and entering their Master’s Program. Clearly, I don’t know everything there is to know about knitting. I figured this would be a great way to challenge my existing skills [...]

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Purling idiot, that’s me!

Posted in Knitting, tagged on March 14, 2007 | 5 Comments »

I have to frog Ezra’s sweater and start over because a) I don’t think I need to cast on as many extra stitches in the armhole–the armhole is ginormous, and b) not only are my purl stitches are WAY bigger than my knit stitches, but they also slant to one side. I didn’t realize how [...]

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Knitting Geek

Posted in Knitting on March 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I am such a knitting geek! So much so that it was hard to resist the Knitting Geek Code from Knitty. What kind of knitting geek? Check out my code block: —————BEGINNING KNITTER’S GEEK CODE BLOCK———— Version 1.1 KCR+++ Exp+ SPM++ KP++ AddiT> !Syn Nov- Cot Wool+++ Lux> Stash Scale+ Fin Ent? FI? Text !Lace [...]

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5 for Monday (+1)

Posted in random on March 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »

1. I am knitting away on Ezra’s sweater–I adore the pattern and the yarn, so I’m loving this project. 2. I’ve finished the Christmas socks for Ezra–have cast on the Christmas socks for Isaac. Photos will be posted soon. 3. The March dishcloth is not going well. At some point, I didn’t increase or decrease [...]

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