Just Knitting Around

In becoming obsessed with knitting, I have had to cut back on other things, well just one, reading. Now, I can knit or read or do almost anything else to avoid housework. I have been an obsessed avid reader all my life, known to read up to two books (regular adult novels, […]

I have written out the instructions for the first pattern I have designed myself. It’s very basic, and I sure something very similar if not exactly the same has been designed before. I wanted something a little more interesting to knit than the Irish Hiking Scarf which I frogged. (It was a […]

…to blog over the Thanksgiving holiday. There has been knitting accomplished, just no blogging. I have created a cabled scarf pattern of my own design. It is a little more challenging than the Irish Hiking scarf, but still fairly simple to memorize and do for someone new to cabled patterns. After […]

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled knitting to bring you a new FO, in response to a knitting emergency.
Victim: DN (dear nephew)
Age: 9 months
Nature of emergency: Arrival of winter in Cincinnati.
With the arrival of winter in Cincinnati which was announced by a low of 21 degrees on Thursday and […]

Here is the almost fisnished sleeping bag slipper. After I finish the cuff. I will start on #2. Hopefully will be able to finish tomorrow and felt before we leave Friday afternoon. MIL’s birthday party is Sunday and I want the slippers to be dry by then.
My whole family including my […]

The Crayon Socks are still on the needles, but my MIL’s birthday party is Sunday, so for a quick knit I’m making felted clog style slippers for her based on a pattern that is no longer available on the internet. Its still in the wayback machine though. I’ll debate on whether […]

The llama has gone for a dip in the frog pond. The silky scratchy feel on the neck has made it unsuitable for a scarf. If felt great in the hands but like thousands of coarse hairs poking into your skin after a haircut! not on the neck. So for dh’s […]

I have joined this KAL hosted by Alison . I started last night on my version of an Irish Hiking Scarf for DH. I had a skein of Dark Grey Tweed Twist pure llama yarn from Farmhouse Fibers. The yarn is very silky feeling and more of a brownish […]

Here is another picture of Clapotis. Plus I added another one in the gallery.
To answer some questions I have gotten to yesterday’s post, here are the project details: I used a single strand of Cherry Tree Hill Silk and Merino DK in Java and size US7 Denise needles. I had 2 skeins and used […]

It wasn’t knit in the round, but I did use my Denise circs. I don’t really like striaght needles anymore and love the Denise needles for everything using a US5 or over.
Clapotis is a great pattern of Kate Gilberts from Knitty and this was the first real […]

I love making children’s socks. This is the second pair of socks I made for Peter who is 3. They are Lion Brand Magic Stripes which is slightly thicker than other sock yarns I have bought from KnitPicks (Simple Strips & Dancing) and the Opal Tiger in my mom’s socks. […]

One of the recent FO’s that I love is a pair of Opal Tiger socks for my mom (an avid Cincinnati Bengals fan whose years of miserable faithful season tickets is finally being rewarded).
They match pretty well. I really tried to start them at the same repeat of the color. […]

My latest finished object is the Coronet Cabled Hat from Knitty. I loved making it. Cables are such a kick to knit! Its for my son Peter, who is 3, and loves the things I knit for him. The red and blue striped mittens in the gallery […]

Just starting up a knitting blog today. I have enjoyed reading other knitting blogs and seeing everyone’s projects. This seemed like as good a way as any to join the crowd.
I have been knitting since November of 2004, and started with Fun Fur scarves. I quickly tired of that and moved […]