[Translate] Well, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that Tammy, a reader of this blog, recognized the correct stitch pattern on the scarf worn by Lucy in the episode of Elementary from last Sunday. She recognized it as an alternating stocking stitch, reverse stocking stitch pattern, the way it appears when done in the round. As a matter of fact, the thought struck her when she saw the Waves scarf I [more]
[Translate] Well, it never really went away, but I say return as this is the second post I’ve done with a slouchie hat in it. The great thing about slouchies is that you don’t have to have a ton of hair to wear them and have them look good on you. I mean, yes, rastahs have been wearing them for ages with their dreads usually hidden by colorful bands of wool, but you don’t have [more]
[Translate] Wow – where did May go? It’s been an incredibly busy month for me and I apologize for the lack of posts. I really have to do some ahead of time for times like these! Anyway, this post is a combination of a pattern and a yarn review. Awhile ago, Sho from
[Translate] The Sunday knitting groups that I help teach were recently doing a session on the mistake rib. I love this rib … mostly. It’s very elastic, and very simple to make. Unfortunately when I first did it, I didn’t realize how much it would stretch vertically. As a result, the raglan sleeved sweater that I made using the precisely measured gauge swatch was a little big – even for me! Lesson learned – not [more]
[Translate] My apologies to everyone who tried to view this in the last few days. My site was down due to an upgrade of the hard drives by my ISP, but unfortunately, the hard drive with my website on it had some issues and needed a recovery from backup files. As a result, my website along with some others were unavailable all weekend. The good news is I’m back! Yeah! So now it’s time to [more]
