TL;DR This blog has been silent for far too long. My apologies. I am not going to even try to bring you all up to speed on what I've been making and doing, because frankly it's been so long I hardly remember. Plus there is a serious lack of photos. Which contributes to the not-remembering (note to self - take more pictures). So instead let's talk about what I'm working on right now! I thought I would try to start out the new year by clearing my needles methodically...size by size... That lasted about one week. In the "actively knitting and thinking about" pile are: A pair of pedicure socks that I'm making for a friend's birthday, which was on...
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...
