This photo is a bit dark, since it was 7:30 p.m. when it was taken.
Pattern: My own, detailed below.
Yarn: 1 skein Nashua Handknits Creative Focus Worsted, 75% wool, 25% alpaca, color: natural heather. $9 from Homespun, in Ithaca, NY.
Needles: 16″ bamboo Clovers, size 7
Gauge: 22 stitches per 4″, unstretched in pattern stitch
Project began/ended: I started […]

A few weeks ago, I went to Ithaca, and I popped into Homespun to get a ball of yarn. I just wanted a one-skein project. I thought this skein was pretty, but once I started unwinding it, I realized it was part alpaca, which means that the result project would be drape-y, and hairy, […]

As part of my never-ending analysis of this simple project, I shall now continue my epic recounting of how it came to be. So, anyway, once at The Yarn Tree (see below), I decided I could not figure out how to thrum a bonnet or hat on my own. My sister had requested a gray […]

This is a very belated Christmas present for my sister. It’s kind of a knitted helmet-meshed with a scarf.
Pattern: The hat part is from this pattern here. It is the Amelia Earhart Aviator Cap, and apparently designed for chemo patients. Cute, even if you are not undergoing chemo. Some other knitter made it into a […]

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This scarf used Knitpicks Ambrosia (which my co-worker pointed out was described in the catalog as “yarn for the gods.”) Knitpicks.com is a great source for well-priced yarn (prices start at $1.79 for pure wool per skein) — this is from their luxury yarn line (a […]

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A. making a Dr. Evil face, while wearing the Lattice Scarf.

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Here’s Adam showing off 60 hours and 60 inches of scarf (and love!). Doesn’t he look thrilled?

Here’s how far I’ve gotten on the scarf, in almost two weeks. Of course, it wasn’t until after I had finished a skein and a half that I realized that I had been twisting all of the slip stitches, so every few rows, the stitches are twisted. I briefly thought about ripping it all out, […]

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Pattern: From Naive Knitting blog
Yarn: Knitpicks ambrosia in fog
Needles: Addi turbo circular in 5
I am not such a big fan of these addis turbo that all the knitting bloggers love. This is because they are metal and do not bend, and thus, are a little bit […]

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Pattern: “My So-Called Scarf” from Sheep in the City
Yarn: Manos del Uruguay in 63 (2.5 skeins)
Needles: Plastic Bryspun in 10
I cast on 10 extra stitches than what the pattern used, and went down to size 10 needles (size 11 seemed so big, that it didn’t […]