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Pomme de Pin 25 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
This morning I steam-pressed the last sleeve of Pomme de Pin (which I finished on Wednesday) and sewed it into the body. I am done! I am more or less pleased with the sweater. I used five skeins of M...
One Sleeve to Go 22 Aug 2013 | 01:40 am
I did complete the first sleeve for my Pomme de Pin cardigan, and as I discussed a couple of blog entries ago, it is radically different from the way the pattern directs you to knit it. I sort of fud...
Reversible Knits 18 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
I have another book to review . . . This is Iris Schreier’s Reversible Knits: Creative Techniques for Knitting Both Sides Right, due out on September 3. From the publisher’s blurb: Using knit/purl,...
The Sparkle Factory 15 Aug 2013 | 01:37 am
I recently got this very fun-looking book for review in the mail. This is The Sparkle Factory by Tarina Tarantino. I will confess that before hearing about this book, I had no idea who Tarina Taranti...
Knitologie 11 Aug 2013 | 08:13 pm
Last week I got a review copy of a knitting book: This is Knitologie by Lucy Main Tweet, and it is subtitled “Creating Personal Heirloom Knits With Monograms as Simply as Cast-On and Cast-Off.” The ...
Loki 8 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am
Hey, who is this cute little guy? Meet Loki, who has just come to live with me. Loki is a 2-year-old male lilac point Ragdoll. He is 10.65 pounds of purring kitty love. He has only been with me a f...
Thank You 1 Aug 2013 | 02:31 am
Thank you for all the kind comments, Ravelry posts and messages, and emails you have sent me, offering condolences on the death of my beloved kitty Lucy. And thank you to those of you who have made do...
Lucy 26 Jul 2013 | 07:06 pm
I am saddened more than I can say to have to tell you that my Lucy died earlier this week. Lucy came to live with me in May 2003 when she was two years old. She died at the age of 12 — far too short ...
It Was a Dark and Stormy . . . 21 Jul 2013 | 08:06 pm
. . . Cardigan. I finished Dark and Stormy on a bright and sunny morning — yesterday morning. I made my version much longer and oversized, and it turned out just as I had hoped. As I mentioned in my...
Ribbing and Bands 18 Jul 2013 | 01:47 am
Coming down the home stretch! I have finished the body of my Dark and Stormy cardigan, including the ribbing. I bound off my ribbing using a Russian Bind-off. What’s a Russian Bind-off? It is worked ...
