Just a quicky …. busy pulling yarns and preparing to update previous Blog Reader Specials, plus a few new items not previously shown.
Here is as far as the stocking got last night. I’m liking it. And I’m thinking, “Gosh, wouldn’t it be nice to have a blanket like this…?” There are several ways to do [...]
But first……
I woke this morning and prepared to put the rattan screen across the open back door. And I discovered I had a visitor:
I opened the door, set the screen in the open and tapped it to knock the little visitor off into the yard. And THEN I discovered he was not alone! there were [...]
There is NEVER enough time in a day to do what is planned.
Anyway, how’s everyone else doing on your Stashbuster Holiday Stocking?
Here’s the stocking progress on mine so far:
The last band only LOOKS rounded, simply because it is on a circular needle and refuses to lie flat and behave for a photograph.
And here’s another bundle [...]
So I’m sitting here knitting along, swapping out colors, pulling up various stitch patterns.
The most recent band is going to be pulled out, but I wanted to show you why. This is as far as I got yesterday:
here’s a closer picture:
Do you see the problem? Or, better, do you see the pattern?
The orange and the [...]
So…. if you’ve been reading along, you know that I am knitting a Banded Stashbuster Stocking for the holidays. It is a collection of various two-color stranded work and two-color slip-stitch work. And it will have the year at the top, just below the cuff.
And I will be posting several assorted stitch patterns for other [...]
It’s taken me much of the day to finish what I had to finish so I could get this post ready.
Okay, so I suggested you pull out a bunch of oddball yarns of a similar size/weight. Here is part of my little pile. You’ll notice it’s deliberately NOT “color-coordinated”. IN fact, it looks like [...]
I haven’t even scared away all the neighborhood kids for Halloween yet, why the heck are you people blathering on and on and blasting away with the Christmas tunes already???
hehehehehe… yeah, I’m a crochety old fart, I suppose. I don’t do Halloween any more, and haven’t for many years. I think the entire whole time [...]
