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Archive for February, 2006

I finished!

Well, I am done. Weaved the last end in Sunday afternoon. Take a look:

I’ll start by saying I like them. I love the pattern, like how the colors turned out, and really enjoyed the process of fair isle. You can feel it coming though can’t you?…the but. I guess I just [...]

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The foot (dum dum dum)

I am not sure if my title relays the kind of doom I feel about the foot of my stockings. Regardless, I am feeling it. I have finished one stocking (and am about half way through my second) but I am thinking about fixing the first which will make my Olympic Knitting that [...]

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I heart Norway

For Norway produced a style of knitting that is giving me such pleasure. Here is my Olympic knitting update:

I love these stockings so far. Love them. It makes me happy to knit them. Now, I have not been the perfect fair isle knitter. Learning to knit with one strand in each [...]

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Pacing myself

I must make this:

and this:

Both are in the new Rowan 39. I am hoping an LYS around here has it because I am anxious to see the patterns. Just beautiful. Rowan can look a little crazy bohemian but they have some really unique patterns that I enjoy.
The problem [...]

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And I’m off…

So I am off to a bit of a slow start. Perhaps I can be one of those Olympians who starts off rocky and then comes up from behind. I have to say though, for my first time Fair Isle knitting, I am really quite enjoying it. I love watching the [...]

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My Knitting Olympics

I wasn’t going to do the Knitting Olympics…not because I didn’t want to but because I didn’t pick a project and just didn’t get around to committing. Well, yesterday I was hit with the inspiration bug and now officially have a new project�??unfortunately, I think it is too late for me to join [...]

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