Way back at the start of the year I said that this year should be a year of sweaters, or jumpers as we call them in Australia.
I’d tried to knit a couple of jumpers before, but something always went wrong. Now with the help of Ravelry I felt a lot more confident, so I [...]
I finished the navy striped socks (photo later, once they’re out of the wash). Then for some reason I cast on 3 more pairs.
The first were the Froot Loops, which I started on wooden needles so I could knit them on the plane to England.
The second were these Ringwood pattern socks from Nancy Bush’s [...]
I want to start using more ecologically sound yarns, so I’m researching what’s available. Here’s a list of what I’ve found so far. All these yarns claim to be environmentally friendly and use minimal chemical processing on the yarn; those that are bolded are organic.
I’m limiting the list to yarns that I’m interested [...]
Wow, it’s been a long time since I updated this. Here are some of my recent knitting projects:
This is a top-down hat knitting according to the recipe in Barbara Walker’s “Knitting From the Top Down”. Only I made it too big, so I just kept going and going until it came down to [...]
Apparently one is meant to post one’s knitting works in progress on Wednesdays, so here are mine.
Purple waterfall scarf/sleeveless vest
Gave up on this and ripped it out. I’ll never wear it because the wool’s a bit too scratchy. Plus it was too wide and chunky and I was getting bored with it. [...]
So here I am in San Francisco, part of that magical land where online shopping works. Last week I ordered a set of Knitpicks DPNs and some superwash merino for socks, and here are the socks in progress:
Meanwhile I’ve found a room and will be moving in with the Librarian Avenger in about a [...]
Well, I set this thing up so I would have something to feed into Ravelry so I suppose I’d better begin.
If you’re coming here from LiveJournal (or reading this here, since it’s crossposted) I should probably note that I’m widening my “oeconomist” remit to include crafts in general, so in addition to the cooking and [...]