Category: Accessories

  • settling in and catching up

    Whew. I think things are finally sort of settling down a bit, although I have loads of stuff to do for the apartment still – setting up another shelf, general organization (especially the yarn! and my office), plus the usual daily/weekly stuff like dishes and laundry. I’m hoping to have a bit of time to myself in the next week or two to get things the way I want them, but we’ll see! This weekend I’m getting a new stove – hooray for a good landlord – so that’ll be a bit disruptive, but awesome!

    How about a few apartment photos?

    living room/dining area

    (looking from the bedroom through the living/dining room, office is at the back)

    rainbow books

    Books! Knitting books and cookbooks.

    I’ve been knitting up the cover sweater from the fall Interweave for a store sample, in purple Manos Naturals. Colour’s a bit off here, it’s a cooler purple.

    clasica jacket

    I’m also hard at work on editing and doing finally proofing so I can release some patterns!

    macro lace cardigan, back

    I know some people have been waiting very patiently for a few patterns, and I apologize for the delay – who knew that moving was such a time suck? (Everyone, I’m pretty sure). So I’ve decided to release 3 patterns together as a collection, the Macro Lace cardigan above, the Hibiscus shawl, and the Honeybee cardigan which will be available in two lengths (cropped and full length).

    Hibiscus shawl

    Honeybee cardigan

    The patterns will be available separately as usual, or all together for a discount. Or at least, as soon as I figure out how to do that on Ravelry! Now, I need some help – I need a name for this little collection! The name chosen will receive a free copy of all three patterns.

    Any ideas? Much obliged!

  • on the needles: hawaii inspired

    This trip I actually did more knitting than I expected to – I don’t tend to knit on planes, because I don’t feel comfortable and I’m usually sleeping anyway! But I did do a fair amount on the shorter inter-island flights, while waiting in the airports, and in the car.

    hawaii-inspired knitting

    I hoped to get this done, blocked, and photographed while in Hawaii, but that might’ve been a bit ambitious considering that I started it while I was there and had only 2 weeks! It’s still not done, but nearing the end. And I’m hoping that I’ll get away with using just 2 balls of Koigu.

  • more milkweed

    First up, there are a couple of small omissions in the written instructions for Milkweed, in Chart D. Rows 64 and 66 were missing a yo, and Row 68 was missing a k6. These have been corrected, and you can download another version on Ravelry called “MilkweedShawlJune18”. I tried to send out a notification from Ravelry, but I don’t think it worked! Anyway, the chart remains the same.

    Now some photos of the prototype version that I actually knit first, out of Koigu.

    koigu milkweed prototype

    I used 2 skeins and had very little leftover. This one is still a bit smaller than the Casbah one because the koigu is thinner.

    milkweeds

    It was a case of me thinking I could remember what I knit after the fact to write the pattern, when I really couldn’t! So I ended up knitting up the Casbah one and writing down the pattern row by row as I went.

    I really love the Koigu version for the colours and the squishyness (yay garter stitch), but the pattern is somewhat obscured.

    koigu milkweed