I have the blues

I’ve been hit with a bug. A bad cold bug.

I’m pretty positive it happened when everyone visited for Winterlude. My body has a tendency to incubate viruses for a long period of time, generally three weeks or so. Given that, this one’s right on the money. It also is no coincidence that the Pirate has [...]

Mind concoctions

Jack’s blanket is sure to have arrived. I’ll need to call the sibling and find out.

In the meantime, knitting has been a bit slow, but on the uprise. Between beating illnesses and getting some profitable freelance work done, the time for knitting has been narrowed to movie-watching. Luckily, that was the Christmas gift of the [...]

Of Socks, Fleece, and Highwaymen

Goodness! Why do I not update here more often. I wind up with a million things to write about.

Firstly, how about a new sock.

This is a Jaywalker (natch) knit in Regia Canyon Color, in the Beach colorway. The RPM aren’t done yet. I enjoy switching up my socks a little so the monotony isn’t there [...]

Knitting Math

I knit up a gauge swatch for the recycled yarn, to use for the Boogie vest. It turned out to have some more stitches to the inch than the pattern. Oops.

I turned to my trusty SnB Nation book, which I have to say, is an amazing resource for cool patterns(I’m using an edited version of [...]

For what it’s worth

This week has been a lovely time to putter around at getting some things done, as I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled on Monday. While this is a setback in some ways, in others it was a nice time to focus on some hobbies. Mostly reading this time around, but I did [...]

Tribulations of socks

Not planning on making a long-winded introductory post. The more you read, the more you learn!

So, hello!

Lately I’ve had a touch of bad luck on the knitting front. Perhaps it’s my bad habit of never deciding to swatch. Perhaps it’s the fact that my poor size ten feet combined with my love of knitting socks [...]