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Twirling Like a Gyroscope
Posted on | May 10, 2011 | 2 Comments
With so much secret knitting kept necessarily under wraps, it has been quite some time since I last had the opportunity to design a new sweater for yours truly. In fact, it has been a long time since I could blog about anything more exciting than baby caps, of which I have been enamored lately [...]
Happy Mother’s Day!
Posted on | May 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
On this day of all days, I felt entitled to go outside early this morning and raid the garden… Although I usually enjoy the roses ON the bush and seldom bring any into the house, today I picked myself a whopping armful of the most spectacular, wildly fragrant roses from every bush in the garden… and arranged [...]
Baby Caps: Gilding the Lily
Posted on | April 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
Those baby caps were looking just a bit too plain to me. Back to the stash for inspiration I went… and came up with the following solution: These pink crochet flowers are worked in some 100% wool that has been in my stash literally since I first learned to knit 30 years ago. Obviously, the [...]
Mad-cap Knitting
Posted on | April 14, 2011 | No Comments
Stash-busting is a goal of mine this year. Never let it be said that I don’t put ALL of my yarn to good use. The left-over yarn from my baby cardigan was burning a hole in my knitting bag, so to speak, and I had enough of it to make these three little baby caps. [...]
Choosing Buttons: Help Wanted
Posted on | April 8, 2011 | 4 Comments
I find myself on the horns of a dilemma (I’ve always wanted to use that phrase, “horns of a dilemma,” but never had an appropriate occasion until now. Just what does horns of a dilemma mean, anyway? I envision a gigantic rhinoceros and some poor hapless individual – me, in this instance – sitting astride it [...]
Baby Cardigan, WIP It Good!
Posted on | April 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
Although at first I thought I’d make a simple stand-up collar for this little cardigan, I was having so much fun working strategic increases (along the center back of the collar so it would spread a bit more and lie a bit flatter) that ultimately I worked collar points to frame the top button that [...]
Baby Cardigan WIP, continued
Posted on | April 4, 2011 | No Comments
This little baby sweater is coming along swimmingly; taking full advantage of our glorious spring weather, I’ve been knitting outdoors and working on my tan absorbing vitamin D as I whip through the rows. Loved working the little texture stitch. Although the yarn’s pooling tendencies show up in these photos, in person it’s much harder to see [...]
Knitting for Babies
Posted on | March 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
Lately, it seems as if everybody I know is having a baby. Some of my older friends have grown children who are starting families of their own. Some of my younger friends are adopting or bearing children at an alarming rate. Alarming only because I want to knit for all of them, but am simply [...]
Blue Pleated Cardigan
Posted on | February 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
Every once in a while, I remember something I forgot. The Blue Pleated Cardigan is one of those. After I finished making it in 2009, I wore it to death for at least a year. Then, for reasons I no longer remember, I consigned it to the top shelf of my closet. That is to [...]
Not Your Traditional Knitter: Meet Mens Knitwear Designer Kevin Kramp
Posted on | February 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
If you thought you’d seen all possible permutations of knitwear for men, let me introduce you to something completely different. Kevin Kramp and I first talked several months ago when I interviewed him for an article in our university’s alumni magazine. I was immediately struck by his idiosyncratic creativity. In fact, the lede in my article quoted Kevin’s [...]