Posted in finished objects, knitting, tagged koigu, socks, atlantis, through the loops, kirsten kapur on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Taking photos of socks is not as easy as one might expect! Well, for those of us who haven’t ever photographed a pair, anyway. Maybe this is old hat for some of you, but who knew how complicated it could be! Here’s a small summary of my first socks photo findings:
Get rid of all dog [...]
Posted in finished objects, knitting on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Begun in July while on vacation on the Outer Banks in NC…
finished at our new home in a small seaside community south of Boston.
I am now a sock knitter!
And uh, more details as soon as I figure out how to take pictures of them; on the to-do list for tomorrow!
Posted in finished objects, food fun, recipe on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Way back a long time ago, when I was three” as my daughter says, or the first week in March, as I tell it, we planted a little raised box garden of greens: A mesclun mix, spinach, arugula, and escarole. We had plans to line the side driveway with a row of boxes, but alas! [...]
Posted in felting, finished objects, knitting, tagged Alapaca with a Twist, felted snuglets, lopi, maggie pace, Pick Up Sitcks!, slippers on July 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Remember these… well now they’re all done!!
OK, so they’re not exactly done… I have yet to add the elastic to close them up, even though I’ve already purchased the cord. It’s hard to get excited about plain old vanilla elastic cord, so I might try to find some funky orange laces or ribbons or something.
These [...]
Posted in finished objects, knitting, tagged Christmas Knit, malabrigo, manon, norah gaughan on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
At least one Christmas present is finally complete!
Manon by Norah Gaughan, knit up in Malabrigo for my fabulous, super-stupendous step-mother extrodinaire.
This was an incredible knit… and I am so looking forward to making up one for myself!
The lovely buttons she chose worked beautifully. I knit up a two stitch i-cord for the button loops, and [...]
Posted in finished objects, for baby, tagged baby, blocking, cathay, debbie bliss, knitting, matinee coat, sweater on April 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The shower was today… and the sweater was the first gift opened!! I swear I had nothing to do with the arrangement of the packages, I swear! It just happened to be sitting right in front of L when it was time to open the packages.
I think they liked it Although they didn’t [...]
Posted in finished objects, tagged baby surprise jacket, elizabeth zimmermann, moving mud, zimmerman on March 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Woo-hoo! Finally finished the BSJ today… ends woven in and all, and lemme tell ya, with all the five different yarns I used, there were quite a few hanging out at the edges. It was really fun to take it to my parents’ place on Easter and throw it to people and ask them to [...]
