stash, knit, repeat

(It’s my favorite Dylan song ever. How could I resist such a title?) Pattern: Eunny Jang’s Tangled Yoke Cardigan from the Fall 2007 Interweave Knits Yarn: Rowan Felted Tweed, color “Carbon” (which is so blue, hush you), a smidge over 7 balls for the 38″ size Time elapsed: I thought about 2 months, but I [...]

Amidst a very sad weekend*, I finished all of the knitting on the tangled yoke cardigan. It just needs some ribbon and jewelry to finish it off. Up next is holiday knitting, and I’d really better get zooming on that. My list, as usual, is gigantic. Also as usual, I’ve forgotten all about the holidays [...]

I wonder if you realize you fascinate me so… Excuse the bright purple–it really was laying there alseep in a sunbeam. But! The Eleanora sock is finished, and packed away in a box with some goodies to send to a super-nice friend. Jacob may have helped with some of the goodies, but he’s not telling [...]

Thanks so much for your opinions on the yarn, everyone. It was really interesting to see what the word “deep” meant to all of you. My instinct was that a deep color would be both dark in tone and very saturated. But if I take the majority opinion, it seems like I’m wrong and that [...]

Sorry about the radio silence. It’s been quite the… well, let’s just say it’s been a surprising week. Knitting has happened, of course. Spurred on by Sil’s fab Tangled Yoke, I finished the main part of the body. It’s been pretty sloggy so far, but this feels like a big milestone. Now, just the bottom [...]

Well, let’s be fair. The Tangled Yoke Cardigan is very, very unlikely to be disastrous. It is kind of dull, though, at least for the moment. I’m finally (finally!) done with the garter rib on the body, but those rows are still damn long. And my monkeys are done, and I’m not feeling the sock [...]