Straight to the sleeves

Straight to the sleeves

Are you ever knitting along on a glorious sweater pattern and you can’t wait to wear it, only to be confronted by the sleeves at the end of the pattern? Then you feel slightly defeated as sleeves always take longer than you think. You’re not alone,...
Baby, baby.

Baby, baby.

I’m done having babies, but I still get to celebrate all of my friends that have upcoming babies! I was thrilled to hand off this baby blanket to a dear friend at her baby shower this past weekend. She is also an office mate, and I’ve been working on it as...
Finally exhaling.

Finally exhaling.

So far this sweater is going better than expected. Despite feeling like it was never growing in length, it eventually did get to the 15.5 inches and I moved on to the armhole shaping. Then things went much more quickly with the body. This sweater is Docklight and...
The incredible shrinking sweater!

The incredible shrinking sweater!

Ok, so this sweater is not actually shrinking. It just feels like it. This is Docklight and it’s a gloriously beautiful pattern from Brooklyn Tweed. However, the fisherman’s rib just will not grow. I don’t think I’m giving a trade secret away...
Accidentally Gryffindor

Accidentally Gryffindor

In the midst of working on other projects, I started feeling like I needed one more stockinette thing going. Previously, Zooey had gone through a phase where she did not appreciate the hand knit socks I cranked out for her. Now she seems to have turned a corner and...