Experiments

If this hat looks familiar to you, that’s because it’s the third one of these that I’ve knit — though you never saw the second, which I knit just last week and is already in the hands of its intended recipient. I knit the first one in 2009 as a replacement for a beloved non-handknit [...]

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Mission Accomplished

I have officially finished my Christmas knitting, and well before Thanksgiving, too! I feel like I deserve a medal. That medal might be for “Most Realistic Expectations,” though — I could never have done it this fast if I hadn’t been aiming low, making hats for my male family members (which take less than a [...]

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Botanic Prophecies Fulfilled

I finished my brother’s hat at least a week ago — I think it was the day after my last post — but it’s taken me awhile to get around to weaving in the ends & photographing it. The Botanic Hat is reversible, and this is the side I prefer, since the ribs offer visual [...]

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Botanicals

What you are looking at is hydrangea flowers above Kawaguchiko, in the the foothills of Mt. Fuji. I took this picture in July 2003, the summer I spent living in a Buddhist monastery in Japan. All the books about Buddhism that I’d read for my religious studies classes in college said that you needed to [...]

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(Last Year’s) Christmas Knitting

I have made the objectively poor decision to knit for my family again for Christmas this year. I’m about 95% sure that they don’t read this blog — they know of its existence, but they think the whole concept of a knitting blog is a little nuts — but before I go blithely posting shots [...]

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Whisper

My Whisper Cardigan is finished and blocked and I love it! The yarn is Malabrigo Lace in Azul Profundo, and it was perfect for this project. It created a lovely, light, floaty, soft fabric, and the color is fantastic. And at $9 a skein, a project like this that takes about 1.5 skeins is a [...]

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U(nseasonal) FO

I finished this hat weeks and weeks ago, but it wasn’t particularly in season then, either. In fact, a hat like this is basically never appropriate for the weather in southern California. I made it with the dancefloor in mind — the dancefloor of all-night dance parties out in the desert, where it can get [...]

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A Tale of Two Hats

We interrupt this series of “flashback” posts to bring you a brand-new FO. I finished Ysolda’s Cairn last week, and am tickled to be one of the first people to knit it. I didn’t make the mitts, and the hat wasn’t for myself, but it was for somebody whose head was approximately my size so [...]

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The Worst Hat Ever

The Worst Hat Ever has never before been seen by human eyes — unless you count mine, that is. Too embarrassing to ever be posted to my Ravelry profile, it lives in a dark corner of my stash drawer whispering warnings about the dangers of Fun Fur. Like so many of the worst projects ever, [...]

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My First Scarf (and Other Love-Fueled Mistakes)

I know I alleged in my previous post that I would be keeping the “personal” writing and the “knitting” writing separate, but the more I thought about writing about my past knitting projects, the more I realized that these were going to be stories about me, not just stories about what yarn I chose and [...]

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