Tag: colorwork
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Hello darlin, nice to see you
It’s been a long time… It has been a hot minute hasn’t it? Suffice it to say that I’ve not felt like blogging for several reasons and have no idea how much I’ll feel like it moving forward. But we’re here today, so let’s recap. I have been quite non-prolific over the last few months.…
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Make nine.
If you have stopped by this blog before, you may know that I sometimes set up making goals for myself. I don’t always follow through (I’m looking at you, light socks) but when I do accomplish a goal, it feels awfully nice. Back in February, I jumped on the #makenine bandwagon. I put a lot…
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Sunset Highway.
Finishing a sweater is always a satisfying feeling. For that matter, finishing anything at all is satisfying to me. But when it’s a sweater that I loved from the moment it came out, but thought I couldn’t knit, tried and failed to knit, and then finally finished it? Satisfying doesn’t begin to describe the feeling.…
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Definitely not all three.
As I made my Sunday morning coffee this weeekend, I thought about what knitting I wanted get done. Actively on the needles were my Zweig and my July rainbow socks. I knew that I wanted to finish the socks first thing, but where to go after that? I have, of course, another pair of July…
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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…
Knit 1, Make 2 