Posts Tagged: vest?!?

Yup, looks like this is going to be a Thursday WIP round-up. I thought about it yesterday, a few times actually, but all at bad times.
Brrrrrrr. It’s been raining the storm of the season and the house is chilly. I keep lighting candles for warmth and comfort and drinking lots of tea. Speaking of tea—I [...]

As part of my 2010 knitting resolutions (which I haven’t yet written up here), I thought I should do WIP Wednesday posts. Whoops—Wednesday flew by me yesterday, so it’s time to play catch-up (again, already). So here are the three projects occupying my attention right now:

No, my second Ishbel certainly hasn’t gone by quite as [...]

Dear Knitters,
I’ve never done this before but I was hoping you’d be willing to help me out. You see, I started knitting a Blustery last night for Vestvember. Most projects seem to be really happy with the pattern, but I just can’t figure out how it’s supposed to work right.

Here it is, looking all right. [...]

Just in progress.
I just wanted to write really quick that even though there hasn’t been writing or photography, there has been knitting.
Right now I’m working on:

A second Ishbel shawl
Through the Loops! Mystery Socks
Swatches for Blustery, so I can be part of Vestvember except really late

I’m hoping next weekend I get tons of knitting time and [...]

Fridays are for baking cookies.

I decided to use a German recipe, found here, so that I could find everything called for. Because brown sugar doesn’t exist here, and is in every English recipe. As well as other things, like vanilla extract, although there is “vanilla sugar” as substitute.
It didn’t work too well; I probably put [...]

Just as I finally accepted that maybe my knitting mojo was lost, but it wouldn’t be forever, and it’ll all wait for me over the rainbow, it’s okay that I have all this yarn but nothing to do with it… I got bored of the Internet.

Apparently after you’re stuck to the Internet for entertainment for [...]