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Specs:
Heart Hat
Pattern : Elizabeth Zimmermann,
Book: Knitting Workshop
Yarn: Cascade 220, used a bit of each skein.
Needles: Addi US #6, 16″
Alterations.. none really. I pretty much just followed the pattern blindly!
Changes I would make: None really except to use a longer needle, the 16 inch was a little tight.
What I learned: How to knit [...]
I got up early last Saturday to watch the second episode of Knit and Crochet Today and was treated to 4 minutes of dead air then 8 minutes of Curious George followed by the remainder of the episode of Knit and Crochet Today! I had missed pretty much all of what looked like a really [...]
Well I havn’t told you all about my vacation knitting! I brought a few projects with me to keep me busy on these drives from place to place.. but sadly last night I ran out of yarn on the one project!
I am one and a half rows away from the 576 stitch section of the [...]
Steeking is when you knit the body of a sweater in a tube, and then reinforce and cut open where the armholes (and quite often the neck). I just finished a test knit that involved steeking and really it is not as scary as it sounds! In fact I think the steeking was the easy part! [...]
-Nellie Olson flew over my house.*
-Caleb tried to burn the house down make his own popcorn.
-The internet went out again.
-I had to open up Jaxom’s computer and do minor surgery to get it running.
-The dog ran off on me in the rain..
-The dog was really only hiding somewhere dry while she listened to me run [...]
