Race to the Finish I really thought I was not going to get these done in time. I cast on 27 February, and if it hadn't been a leap year, I would not have finished within the prescribed month. I was using up scraps of my hand-dyed sport weight from the baby sweater and a couple of woven scarves I had made as Christmas gifts. When I ran out of hand-dyed scraps, I decided to use up some 6-ply sock yarn I had languishing in the stash. To be honest, if I were making these for someone in particular I would have used matching yarn or at least attempted to make the stripes look purposeful. As it stood, I was...
In Which I Make a 45" Square Swatch With the doldrums of the double knit blanket behind me, I launched into the square shawl. I think this is really EZ's way of getting you to knit a second blanket without calling it that, because I have a hard time imagining what else a baby would do with a 40"+ square of knitted lace. I heeded our author's suggestion to have a lace pattern picked out so that the ever-increasing square would not get too monotonous - I had had enough monotony for one month, thank you! Enter my all-time favorite, most referred-to, most baffling, stitch dictionary! The Mon Tricot Knitting Dictionary: 900 Stitches and Patterns! I inherited this treasure from my...
Cincinnati Famous, Y'all! You'll have to excuse this rather boastful post. Mr. Mouse insists that I share some of the press Dashing Mouse Designs has been getting recently. I am profoundly uncomfortable with tooting my own horn, but here goes. So you may recall that this whole endeavor began with a little yarn dyeing operation in my kitchen (by the way, had a massive dyeing day yesterday, lots of photos on my Instagram account if you're curious). Honestly the fact that people liked/bought/used my yarn at all surprised me quite a bit at first because, true to form, I had have a massive case of imposter syndrome. However, people do seem to like it and buy it and use it....
