Caturday: Biscuit

Remember the British Bakes? Well, we adopted Biscuit, the mama cat. I know, I know that means we have EIGHT cats now, but honestly, is eight so much harder than seven? My reasoning was this: Biscuit was just sitting at the shelter not getting adopted because they had to put a “no small children” warning…

WIP Wednesday: Spice Route

I’m in an awkward spot in which I have many projects close to being finished. They just need blocking, ends woven in, buttons sewn on, wraps on the niddy noddy counted, yarn washed, etc. The only thing I have left on the needles is this. It’s Spice Route by Louise Zass-Bangham. I only have about…

New Look

I’ve updated the blog with a new look, as you can see! I was told by a helpful reader that the white background was a bit harsh, so I hope this is better. I’ve also cleaned up my widgets so it’s more relevant. I’m not super happy with the fact that the main page does…

Caturday: British Bakes

We have brand new kittens so I’m a little tired. Forgive me if this is a mess. Anyway, this isn’t about those kittens. This is about the previous kittens. The British Bakes. We got a request for fostering a mama with three 6 day old kittens back in the beginning of February. We hadn’t been…

FO Friday: Pirra Necklace

I finished the necklace! It’s a nice quick project, even with all that beading slowing it down. The beading at the ends of the shorter sections got in the way of the wrapping a bit, the pattern had a wider band of wrapping around each edge, but it worked out. If I were to make…

WIP Wednesday: Pirra Necklace

My mom was pre-packing for a trip and discovered a gap in her jewelry collection. She wanted something longish that would coordinate with the outfits she picked out for the trip. I presented several knitted necklace options and she picked out the Pirra Necklace by Ambah O’Brien. But she wanted it beaded too, so I…

WIP Wednesday: The Cursed Sock Part 2

The sock strikes again. I’m now on the second sock, the right foot, which has completely different charts. In addition to the math not working out for the repeating section of the top of foot chart I have found two mistakes so far. First there’s a line of four purl stitches in the middle of…

Accessibility

With the recent Ravelry debacle, there’s been much discussion about accessibility on the web. We all know by now that Ravelry is the example of what NOT to do and that most other websites do better. But I realized I don’t know anything about how accessible this blog is. I haven’t had any visual problems…

WIP Wednesday: The Cursed Sock

I’ve been focusing on these socks all week. I already told you about how the chart symbols were confusing and the chart for the heel flap didn’t have wrong side instructions in the legend. Well, it got worse. I was aware that the charts for the small and large sizes for the top of foot…

Ravelry Days of Silence

As some of you may know, Ravelry is retiring the Classic version of their site on April 1. The only option after that will be NuRav, which still causes eyestrain, headaches, migraines, and even seizures for some people. This is why you will never see my posting a link to Ravelry, ever. It can be…