WIP Wednesday – Legolas Socks

The Legolas Socks by Claire Ellen remains my primary WIP. It is definitely an advanced pattern. The heel flap is worked flat (of course), but the legend for the chart does not provide wrong side instructions. It assumes that for the wrong side of “knit through the back loop” you know to “purl through the…

I’ve been busy…

Sorry for the long absence, my life mildly blew up for a while. First I tried to go low carb and crashed HARD without the happy carbs in my system and totally lost my crafting mojo. Then we picked up kittens and a mama cat to foster and that took a lot of time and…

FO Friday: Qiviut Cowl

I finished my qiviut cowl! It was my New Year’s Eve cast on, so only took about a month. Well, the knitting didn’t take that long, but it always takes me a while to get around to blocking things. With my new schedule of mostly doing finishing work on Tuesdays, I just had such a…

WIP Wednesday: Pravigan

I’ve been working on Pravigan for at least 1.5 hours every Monday. I haven’t gotten very far. Last Monday I got through 4 rows (which actually feels like 8 due to how two color brioche works). I could have gotten through 5 but I got confused on the first row and had to stare at…

Caturday: Tilly

Meet Tilly (full name Matilda). She is one of our youngest cats at 6 years old. She was the one who basically started us on our foster journey. We found her as a kitten in our neighbor’s yard. It’s kind of a funny story how that happened. Our fence was old and had some missing…

FO Friday: Merino Spin

As promised, my first FO of the year was the merino spin that just needed a wash. I used two braids of Fancy Fibers 19 Micron Merino that I got at the local Weaver’s Guild sale. One colorway was called Lollipop and was mostly reds/blues/purples, and the other colorway was called Autumn Leaves and looked…

WIP Wednesday: Working the List

Recently I posted about my plans for the new year. It included a schedule in which each weekday would be devoted to something specific – knitting, spinning, finishing, the brioche scarf, or other crafts. Well, I’ve been sticking to that and it seems to be working! Of course I knit a little bit every day…

WIP Wednesday: Qiviut Cowl

My New Year’s Eve cast on this year was the Lotus Ring cowl made from my precious qiviut I got at the Sock Summit. For those who don’t know, qiviut is the most expensive and softest of fibers. It is the soft underwool of the muskox, and in Alaska is collected by hand from either…

Plans for the New Year

Normally I don’t plan out projects too far in advance because I quickly forget what I’ve planned and go off course. Maybe, if I write them down I’ll actually stick to it though, so I’m giving it a try. I have a goal to knit 12 projects, spin 5 projects, and finish at least one…

2020: A Year of FOs

It’s finally over. The nightmare that was 2020. Despite it all I got 16 knitting projects and 7 spinning projects done this year. However, I had a 6 month period in the middle when I finished absolutely nothing as far as knitting goes. There was a bit of spinning finishes but that’s it. I blame…