About a year ago, I finished knitting a blanket that was a gift for someone else and realized I missed its pieces piled up in my lap. I decided it was time to knit a blanket for myself :o). Wanting something cheerful for the cold, dark months, I chose this free pattern at Lion Brand……. Read more »
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Today’s Election-Free Zone: Slow Blanket in Progress :o)
For those of you who read my blog posts via Twitter, sorry if I’ve been flooding you with old posts. The feed I used to use (Twitterfeed) is shutting down soon, so I’ve had to start a new feed (dlvr.it). I’m pretty sure it re-posted a lot of stuff right away. Apologies, too, if new… Read more »
Birthday Month Randutiae
Season 3 of The Great British Baking Show (known as The Great British Bake Off in Britain) was my favorite yet. I cried through the Final (in a good way). Here is the chocolate well created by a contestant in Episode 9… …with a bucket that drops to the bottom to collect liquid white chocolate… Read more »
My Mother Made Me a Hat
So, the movers are coming tomorrow, and though I’m surrounded by exquisite disarray, I feel this is the moment to blog pictures (taken by Kevin) of a very special (perhaps even magical) hat. Because now is the time to celebrate beautiful things. :o) My regular readers know that I knit. Well, my mother knits on… Read more »
Monday Randutiae
A few links for your Monday… Jon Almeda at Almeda Pottery makes the teeniest, tiniest stuff on his teeny potter’s wheel. Here’s his Instagram. Ack! So beautiful. (Thanks Alison!) ETA: Here’s a gorgeous collection of pictures at Bored Panda. In a similar vein, Althea Crome at Bugknits knits with needles sometimes practically as thin as… Read more »
The Last Few Days in Pictures, Again
At the Colonial Inn in Concord, Massachusetts, they keep the register on display, set to October 19, 1895.One traveler on this list is from Ohio, but the rest are from sooooo nearby… my friend pointed out that in 1895,Lowell (about 14 miles from Concord on today’s roads) and Waltham (about 11 miles)were far enough away… Read more »
The Last Few Days in Pictures
I finished a major revision I’ve been working on since before Halloween. Whew! I took a trip to see my parents for Mother’s Day.Here’s a blurry picture of me and my Dad in Wanamaker’s Department Store in Philly, on a very rainy day.They have a famous organ in the store. My Dad talked aboutgoing to… Read more »
Washcloths in Progress…
I haven’t been able to find any online Weeping Angel patterns that satisfy me, so I’m making my own angel up as I go along. This will be a loooong washcloth. Assuming the additional white yarn I’ve ordered arrives soon, I think it will say “DON’T BLINK” at the very bottom. It might not end… Read more »
Spring Report from Cambridge
In my house, it’s still cold. The heat is on. I’m knitting blanket squares. Yes, that’s a dalek. (Here’s the washcloth version. You can knit one, too. The pattern is by Penwiper and you can find it here.) Spring tulips shivering on my messy desk. The trees are starting to flower but I was wearing… Read more »
knittedknockers.org
What is the author knitting? The knitters among you will recognize this as an i-cord. Three needles, three stitches per needle… looks fiddly. Seems to be growing… And growing…. Basil is riveted. If these last two pictures seem lots nicer than the others, it’s because Kevin took them, with Fancy Camera. For this picture, I… Read more »
