I wanted to make a gray version of my Ithacowl. And I did. I knit this a couple of weeks ago…it only took a week.
Pattern: My very own Ithacowl! Free!
Yarn: One skein School Products’ Donegal Cashmere Tweed, bulky. $20 for 95 yards.
Needles: 16″ bamboo Clovers, size 7 (same as the first Ithacowl!)
Project began/ended: Started February [...]

I had high hopes for this cowl. I knit it in a week and a half from my own design, and in my mind, I was like “I’m gong to submit it to Knitty! To Classic Elite! It’s going to be the next Clapotis! This is my big knitting break!!!”

Instantly give yourself a knitted turkey [...]

As I mentioned a while ago, I participated in a “Creativity Study” at NYU’s business school. I went to Purl, the yarn store, and picked out a bunch of Cascade 220 (they were pre-wound into little skeins) and then I was given a week to knit any kind of scarf I wanted (they provided size [...]

Pattern: HoneyCowl, by Fig and Plum
Yarn: One skein of Mona Lisa Fibers, a hand spun yarn, by the owner of Just 4 Ewe. Ninety yards of burly hand spun Corriedale, colorway Greensleeves, $30.
Needles: Size 10.5, 16″ needle.
Project started/ended: Started Monday, March 9, finished Tuesday March 10. This took me maybe five hours to make.

Modifications: I [...]

Oops–I’m getting this post in a wee bit late for Monday, but I think y’all can live.

I stole this picture from Adam’s Flickr…he’s known how to knit since before we started dating, and he’s made a hat for himself and a couple baby hats, but he wanted a ribbed scarf, so I taught him how [...]

This is the back side of the scarf showing.
Pattern: That Little Scarf, by Anne Hanson, from Knitspot.
Yarn: One skein of superwash merino sock yarn from Maple Creek Farm Fine Wools. I seem to have lost the tag, but I think it was 450 yards and $20/skein. This was the only thing I bought from Rhinebeck [...]

I’m watching the Olympics and knitting, but not joining Ravelrympics. Since knitting is a hobby, I try not to get all deadline-ish about it, because I would probably get stressed out (and not finish anything). I’m also trying to only knit from stash, but not go on an Absolute Stash Diet, because things like that [...]

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 [...]

Photograph by baba lu.

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 [...]

Photograph by baba lu.

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

Photograph by baba lu.

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 [...]