M1: Do it, cut it! Hundreds of thousands of knitters have done this before. Don’t freak out! M2: All those other knitters were CRAZY! This is CRAZY! Knitting should not be cut in half! M1: This was your plan all along, so just stick with the plan M2: What if I missed a step, what […]
Miriam Felton
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EPS Update
The yoke is done, the underarms are grafted and the sleeve hems have been sewn down. The ends are woven in and it’s time to steek the piece. I’m a little bit nervous. No turning back after that. I want to make sure that I have time when I do sit down to do it […]
Easy Peasy Pasta Salad
The thing I love most about summer and the warmer months is the fresh produce. During the summer I head to my local farmer’s market every weekend and return home laden down with fruits and vegetables that were just too beautiful to pass up. I sometimes buy more than I can carry and bought myself […]
Pattern Release: Persephone Scarf
Now available in the store. And also available as a kit from Judy at the Ball and Skein shop. A perfect scarf for spring and summer. Light and airy, but just warm enough for those breezy spring and summer nights. Works up quickly in a fingering weight yarn. This pattern could easily be worked in […]
EPS Continued
I finished the second sleeve on EPS, and joined the sleeves to the body. It was fiddley and uncomfortable to knit the first few rounds, but improved and after a few rounds I started the short rows. I worked 3 sets of short rows, using the center point of each sleeve as my reference. The […]
Cat Yodelling?
Watching this on Sunday morning, I laughed so hard that I woke C up. M
Sweater Madness, Part 2
This is where we get deep into the madness part. And it’s a picture heavy brand of madness, so my apologies to those on Dial-up. So I’m working on the EPS still, but I hear the siren song from the many piles of yarn stowed around my house. While sock yarn is singing and crooning […]
Sweater Madness, Part 1
My sock yarn stash may be growing (I can neither confirm nor deny reports of that nature), but right now I’m enamoured with sweaters! I finally did the math and began my EPS – Elizabeth (Zimmerman)’s Percentage Sweater. The basic idea behind this sweater is that you take your chest measurement (or bust measurement for […]
And the occasional spinning
I love spinning. I just haven’t hardly had the time to sit down when I wasn’t already exhausted. I can’t spin when I’m exhausted, so I have been spinning only rarely. But I’m working on this: For my birthday last year, Margene gave me 2 big bumps of Spinderella‘s Thrums. I figured I’d better at […]
Something pretty to look at; or, I hate taxes, thank God it's over for another year!
A good way to avoid doing your taxes is to have self-imposed knitting deadlines. Like this little wisp of a shawl. Knit in less than a week, with a heavier weight yarn, the whole thing was satisfying from start to finish and I never got bored. Pattern: Foliage Shawl, my design, soon to be released […]
