Just Knitting Around

It was so nice to meet you today in Lexington. You are a delightful person and my daughter and I both loved you. I talked her into coming with me at the last minute, and I encouraged her to bring her knitting. I taught her to knit shortly after I taught myself […]

I is for Indulgence.

O.K. I admit it, I now indulge myself with yarn as souvenirs. I don’t need any more refrigerator magnets, or Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts, or mini Eiffel towers. I now scope out the closest yarn stores to my hotel in any city I plan to visit.
Here […]

My STR Moss Agate socks have arisen from the ashes frog pond. The ugly pooling on the foot is gone and replaced by beautimous variegation. Except that when I did increases before the short row heel to make it deep enough, the pooling began anew. I broke it up a little by […]

H is for Hunting for eggs.

Every year Grandma Rosie has an egg hunt on Easter. It has grown over the years, and my youngest DS is now the youngest of 22 grandchildren. Since there are so many of varying ages, there are now “rules”. You are limited to […]

I didnt have time to take a pic of my new SIP today, but the STR is knitting up nicely into some plain socks. I don’t yet know if I will rib the leg or not. We’ll see when I get there.
I had not time to knit over the weekend except on the […]

Gis for Goodbye Jaywalker.

As much as I have liked all the Jaywalkers in blogland, I’m just not lovin how mine looks. The STR is gorgeous (Moss Agate), but I hate the pooling on the foot. It also has funny little bulges on my foot where the patterning starts. (I […]

…my stash.