Whew. Surfacing for a moment. This semester is just crazy for me. I’m taking Spanish and Statistics, which, if you’re a full time student means you’re sitting there thinking, “And?” The and for me is that I’m just not that…
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I drink from the cup of glory!
Or: the pattern for Maude Louise II is now live. I’m tempted to demand all the finest bagels and muffins in the land, but instead I’ll just wait until the kids are in bed and eat a bunch of peppermint…
Holy moo – I’m finishing something!
I shouldn’t get too cocky until it’s up and on the interwebs, but this has been a heck of a long project, and I can see the end now. Maude Louise II. Done. I will be putting it up tomorrow…
Thank goodness it’s next week
Wow. This was a crazy and very, very busy week. I’m exhausted. I was hoping to have Maude Louise (II) up yesterday, but things got ahead of me in the busy-ness that was the past week. However, the wonderful Ellen…
Posted in Knitting, Maude Louise
The design process
First off, thank yous to everyone who replied to my last post. I took all the comments to heart, and I think I have a game plan now. My original instincts were too defensive before they really needed to be. …
Holding pattern
Two years ago, flush with the confidence and hope of a fairly new knitter, I asked for the yarn to make a McQueen Knock Off. It’s not a hard pattern, and the yarn is baby soft and relatively inexpensive, so…
Eat your heart out, Ed Wood!
So it’s not a pure angora sweater. I still think Edward D. Wood, Jr. would approve. Maude Louise the Second is done! Those tricksy button bands* really threw me off, but I’m so glad I took the time to get…
Haha! Take that, foul button bands!
It’s a bit galling when a sweater of one’s own design takes up designs against one. Maude Louise II was nearly done when I tried to add a garter stitch button band that turned out to be a Very Bad…
Finally/heartbreak
Nora finally let me take pictures of her while she was wearing her Tomten jacket! Woot! She’s had the jacket for a year, but I’ve never gotten a decent picture of the jacket actually being worn. Until now, that is.…
Nature’s first green is gold
Liam went ahead and turned seven this weekend. Just before the big day, I remembered a passing request he’d made for a “jungle hat with an Ewok on it”. I had this bee-yew-tee-full yarn that The Lady sent me in…
Posted in Finished Projects, Hats, Kidswear, Knitting, Maude Louise, Miscellany, Nifty Stuff, Self Designed
