by Cassy | Apr 21, 2012 | Knitting, Tips, WIP
If you’ve read any amount of blog posts on this site, or know me in real life, it’s not much of a secret that I have a passion for sock yarn. It’s hard for me to believe that not everyone is in love with sock yarn in the same way. Not many other...
by Cassy | Dec 20, 2011 | Knitting, WIP
This has been a lovely holiday season so far. I don’t usually like the holidays that much. Most years, I’m stressed out about what presents to give people, clamoring for time to knit things for others and some for myself, and the usual family quibbles....
by Cassy | Dec 6, 2011 | Knitting, Mishap, WIP
I consider myself a pretty decent knitter, by no means an expert, but consistently capable of putting out fairly good pieces. I started the Larch Cardigan last February or early March in the final days of winter. Then it got warm and I promptly put it in a drawer in...
by Cassy | Nov 22, 2011 | Knitting, WIP
My fingers will travel a quarter of a mile down this 100 gram strand of wool as I knit one stitch after the next, shaping and forming toes, heels, legs, and cuffs. My fingers have committed this route to memory, so much so that I only need to know the width of the...
by Cassy | Nov 13, 2011 | Knitting, Knitting challenge, WIP
It’s day 13 of NaKniSweMo and I’m feeling totally confident about being able to finish in time, or possibly even this week. As I was working on the increases, each row became painstakingly long and I feared that I was making no progress. Friday night I was...
by Cassy | Nov 8, 2011 | Knitting, Knitting challenge, WIP
On my way home from my Law & Public Policy class today there was a break in the recent downpour, so I decided to head back out and take a few pictures of the changing trees in my neighborhood. We are lucky in Arkansas to have upper 50’s and 60’s...
