When I decided to knit this scarf, we were in the midst of a cold snap at the end of December. I “knew” that we could generally count on similar weather at some point in February, so the scarf would have a good variety of colour. Oops With the exception of a few days, February was unusually mild,…
A few weeks ago I had the urge to knit a hat for my youngest niece. She’s not quite old enough to be oh-so-specific about what her favourite colour is and little kid hats are a quick, fun, and easy knit. I have a pattern I love: Baby It’s You. It’s part of a card set I received as a…
A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across the pattern for Palpitations. It seemed like a fun quick knit for Valentine’s Day and a chance to use up some left over yarn. As an added bonus, I could use them to decorate a tree in our office. I started knitting; finished three; and got the flu. For some reason these…
The thing about the weather is that it’s always changing, sometimes rapidly. And in January, it was a lot of cold and colder (blues and purples are below freezing). For the most part it’s warmed up to storm, so there’s been way more rain than snow. And ice, lots of ice.
Despite my questionable embroidery skills on his face, I find sock yarn monkeys charming.
Pattern: A New Sock Monkey
Yarn: Knit Picks Felici in Jellybean
I was cleaning up my Ravelry projects (as I do every January despite resolutions to finish project pages when projects are finished) and realized that I hadn’t closed my Old Shale Scarf page even though I’d been wearing it for quite a while. A quick look through my Instagram showed I had indeed been knitting on it last spring: The…
