Category Archives: FO's

Hemlock Satisfaction

Hemlock Ring Blanket
This was a really satisfying project.  Once you get into the feather and fan pattern, every fifth row is a pattern row, and the rest is straight knitting.  So once in awhile things would change up a bit, but most of the time it’s just movie knitting.  Great for vacation, too.  I started [...]

Exploring Spirals

Current Mood: Creative
I just finished writing up the pattern for this little bag made with one skein of Koigu KPPPM. Isn’t it cute?

It was inspired by the pattern Exploring Stripes from IK Winter 02/03 that I wrote about here; I wanted to find a way to make the beads spiral down the sides of [...]

Let this be a warning unto you*

This “lovely” vest is one of the first things I ever knit, way back in 2002, and as I was knitting I awaited the moment I could wear it with sweet anticipation. Sadly, it went horribly wrong, but I was so inexperienced I kept myself in denial until the very end.
I learned a [...]

Evidence that I’m more normal than I was this time last year

That is, if more knitting = more normal which, of course, is perhaps up for debate. But I digress.
Last year I finished nine knitted objects. Some of them were knitted lace, with many stitches. But by year’s end my total seemed paltry.
This year I ‘ve already finished four knitted objects (linked to [...]