Needles. (this is an old picture… the socks are MUCH farther along than that) This is 2 sets of Plymoth 6″ bamboo double points, my new favorite sock needles! They’re nice and pointy and the 6″ length is very easy to use. I’ve tried many different brands and types of needles, and you might say […]
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Heads up on Hidcote…
Hey all.. sorry I’ve been AWOL lately… but the grant for work is in almost final form (my appendices alone are close to 3000 pages) and I can finally breathe again. I should be back to posting regularly next week. And I should be able to start off with an “I met the Yarn Harlot” […]
Hidcote Garden Shawl is available!
Buy it here! This shawl is named after the garden at Hidcote (pronounced ‘Hid-Cut’) Manor in Gloucestershire, England. The garden was layed out in the 1920’s by Lawrence Johnston. The Hidcote Garden is characterized by its wild abundant plantings bounded within structured, geometric beds. Hidcote Garden is also famous for it’s lavender varieties.The shawl is […]
Vituperative on the Voracity of Socks, or Alliteration gone Awry, or Ode to the Reclaimed Stocking
For a disentaglement of this deluge of dialogue… click here. When the vagueries of fate and time conspire and collude with the result that you have F-ed your last UFO, and you feel world-weary and ragged having wrung the last vestage (for now) of creativity from your exhausted bones, what alternative might one posess except […]
O is for…..
(I’m skipping N, shuddup) Oak! I grew up in Southern California, with the California Live Oak. As a kid I never knew what everyone was talking about when they said “oak tree”. I didn’t see any oak trees. I saw ACORN trees. Peach trees produce peaches, orange trees produce oranges, almond trees make almonds… so […]
Temporarily MIA
Work is crazy busy, I ran out of bandwidth this weekend but got my limit upped, my site was wonky this morning because I’m installing a secure certificate so that all the info you lovely people enter will be more secure and CERTIFIED more secure, but things are a still a bit unsettled and I’m […]
Much to the pleasure of a certain blogger, I have picked up the Hidcote Garden Shawl again, and she is nearing completion. I finally decided on a way to continue (one that I am happy with at least. I came up with a MILLION ways to continue, including frogging the whole damn thing, but I […]
How to Bead Your Icarus
OK, sorry for the delay, but here it is. How to add beads to your Icarus shawl. Background: I had included beads in each of the edge points in my original design, to add weight and glitz to a simple shawl, but when Interweave Knits told me they wanted to publish it, they nixed the […]
Lightweight Mountain Peaks Shawl WINS!
For those of you looking for the Icarus beading tutorial, I’m sorry it’s not today, but we had new student orientation, and the office sort of exploded, so I haven’t had time to write it up yet, although the pictures are uploaded and everything. I’ll try to write it tonight and post it tomorrow. But […]
Piece of (Strawberry) Cake
I have finished the Crushed Strawberry Socks! They were fun and fairly quick, and honestly, I like the fit other than being too short for me (I decided to make them for the long-range planning department, as I couldn’t fathom knitting something for myself when I see Christmas looming along with all the other stuff […]
