Did I mention the word “insanity” in my profile? Yes? Oh good. To date I have wound some of my skein of Sock Wars KnitPicks Bare into a small ball, knitted it, frogged it and measured it: about 30″ makes a round of 44 stitches. I reckon the Sock Of Doom will be about this… Continue reading Yarnsanity
Author: JulieD
Sock Wars Mobilization
Ooo, Ooo, I got my package from KnitPicks today: Bare DK for dyeing and two sets of their new Options interchangeable circular needles. I hadn’t noticed in the pictures that the cables and accessories are a fabulous purple colour. I was predisposed to love them before I ever tried them. I haven’t knitted with them… Continue reading Sock Wars Mobilization
Trekking XXL Handwarmers
Trekking XXL Handwarmers Originally uploaded by jwordsmith. As promised, a picture of my handwarmers. Tell me those people who dyed this aren’t artists. I’m knitting mitt covers for them now, because I know I’m going to want to wear them past the coolth of autumn (which has yet to reach us). I’m happy with them.… Continue reading Trekking XXL Handwarmers
Sock Wars and Trekking Mitts
OK, so the Cyberman Sweater is seriously in the frogpond. That’s what you get for winging the pattern for a style of sweater you’ve never knitted before. Not to worry. I broke out the Stitches software and have a pattern I think will work. At least I know my prototype was cute, if small. It… Continue reading Sock Wars and Trekking Mitts
Lit-Bashing
Just tried to read the Atlantic Monthly fiction issue. What pretentious claptrap: the kind of stuff only read by people who talk about having read “the latest Mailler.”Give me the short fiction in Women’s Weekly any day. At least we know in the first paragraph who this is about and why we should care; “Who… Continue reading Lit-Bashing
Bored With The Internet?
bored_with_the_internet Originally uploaded by jwordsmith. Does this feel familiar?
KCT
Kev made me laugh out loud tonight. We were talking about this New Families picnic we are due to go to tomorrow at Angus’s new pre-school. The forecast is for rain and Kev was questioning whether or not it’d be on. “I’m sure they’ll move it to the gym, or something,” I said, ever the… Continue reading KCT
Orla
My redhead niece is nine today. I still vividly remember the late-night phone call (four in the morning for them) saying “Do you hear that sound? That’s a baby girl”. Born at home, and lucky to have met the midwife at all, in such a hurry was she. I was married and had been for… Continue reading Orla
Cyberman Continues
Ok, this is a sweater for an 18-month-old (mine) boy and features the Cyberman picture I created (below). I did the front quite quickly. I’m kind of busking the measurements on the raglan sleeves and neckline, but I’m trying to remember to write down what I’ve done. The back went really well. I worked the… Continue reading Cyberman Continues
Don't Take Away My Yarn!
A quote that made me laugh, from a fellow knit-blogger, who is having a hard time going back to work after the latest baby. “As I was having that good cry, though, my husband put things in perspective–‘We could probably live on my salary you know…we’d have to give up some things…books, movies, braces for… Continue reading Don't Take Away My Yarn!