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  • Sharing is caring.

    Sharing is caring.

    About a month ago, I signed up for the most recent round of Fibreshare. If you are unfamiliar, it’s an international swap for fiber-y crafters. Weaving, spinning, crocheting, and you guessed it… knitting. Sign ups opened up back in May after a particularly stressful week and I decided I could use a little extra joy in…

    Cortney (she/her)

    June 13, 2018
    life stuff, sewing
    enabling, fibreshare, finished object, FO, gifts, knitting, making, project bag, sewing, swap
  • If at first you don’t succeed.

    If at first you don’t succeed.

    One of my challenges for this year was to learn to knit colorwork. I love the look of stranded or fair isle knitting and I felt like I was to the point where I could learn a few things in knitting. I got started with this challenge fairly early in the year, with the Pixel…

    Cortney (she/her)

    June 10, 2018
    knitting
    colorwork, fair isle, goals, knitting, making, norwegian mittens, stranded knitting, sweater, sweater knitting, WIP, work in progress
  • Madewell.

    Madewell.

    All done. To say that I love it would be an understatement. I’m only sad that it’s 85 F and June rather than 48 F and October. I cannot wait to be oh-so-cozy in this sweet sweater. This is Madewell by Joji Locatelli. This is my fourth make nine finish! The pattern is a dream. This…

    Cortney (she/her)

    June 8, 2018
    knitting, wardrobe architect
    cardigan, finished object, FO, handmade wardrobe, knitting, making, sweater, sweater knitting, wardrobe architect
  • Super Secret Socks.

    Super Secret Socks.

    I’ve been knitting a pair of socks under top secret conditions for a month. Why the spy-level stealth? One simple reason. They were for Kevin. Kevin and I hang out most of the time. We’re both introverted and like to do our own thing a good bit of the time, but we like to do…

    Cortney (she/her)

    June 8, 2018
    knitting
    finished object, FO, gifts, knitting, making, sock knitter, sock knitting, socks
  • Go with it.

    Go with it.

    I’ve sat down to write this post a dozen times over the last few days. I’m feeling a bit scatterbrained with my making and can’t really seem to synthesize all that’s happening into anything coherent. Let’s come at this from a different angle. The current state of affairs, in pictures: Happy making!

    Cortney (she/her)

    June 6, 2018
    baking, garden, knitting
    baking, enabling, finished object, FO, garden, knitting, making, shawl, sock knitting, socks, sweater, WIP, work in progress
  • Like molasses.

    Like molasses.

    Things seem to be moving along at a snails pace here. Sometimes that happens, it feels like I’m knitting and knitting and knitting but the progress seems slow. I’ve got a secret make that feels like it’s been on the needles for forever, one day I’ll be able to show that one off. If I…

    Cortney (she/her)

    May 31, 2018
    knitting
    knitting, making, sock knitter, sock knitting, socks, swatch, sweater, sweater knitting, WIP, work in progress
  • Teenager.

    Teenager.

    My child, my sweet darlin’, my little sweetheart turned 13 yesterday. We celebrated over the weekend with family, he has a party with friends coming up on Saturday, and last night he had a cupcake: It’s hard to believe that thirteen years have gone by but it’s also difficult to remember life before my days…

    Cortney (she/her)

    May 30, 2018
    life stuff
    kids
  • Wrapping up.

    Wrapping up.

    My knitting drive is at quite the high at the moment. I’m getting a lot of peace and joy out of my knitting, both the process and the products. After my last blog post, I was inspired to get some things finished up. First on the docket was that hat. As I mentioned, I cast…

    Cortney (she/her)

    May 23, 2018
    knitting
    finished object, FO, goals, knitting, making, sock knitting, socks
  • Stress knitting.

    Stress knitting.

    To be honest, I’ve been stressed out lately, and when I’m stressed I tend to knit like a bit of a nutter. Stacy of StressKnits named her podcast and business after her habit of stress-knitting; I definitely know what she’s talking about. There’s a lot going on around here so grab a cup of something…

    Cortney (she/her)

    May 15, 2018
    knitting
    finished object, FO, goals, knitting, making, sock knitting, socks
  • Windswept.

    Windswept.

    I am certainly swept away by this shawl.   Knitting it was a dream: the rhythm, the texture, the squish. I loved working on it so much that the shawl only spent two weeks on the needles. Now that it’s finished though, the shawl itself is just perfect. This Windswept, a pattern by Molly Klatt of…

    Cortney (she/her)

    May 8, 2018
    knitting
    finished object, FO, knitting, making
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