One month and one skein in (and about 2 days off since my last post later), here is what my Ingenue sweater is looking like! Hooray for Sanguine Gryphon codex! And why yes, I am using safety pins as ...
above: painting the backs of my ikea bookshelves There hasnt been much knitting since I got back to LA. In the midst of starting a new job and moving into my new apartment and everything else, I hadn...
No knitting worth writing about, unfortunately - but here are a few cellphone snapshots of what Ive been up to! I spent the last five weeks in New Orleans, working too much to knit or, sadly, explore...
As part of my new years resolution to use up some of the stash I already have, I cast on this Bandana Cowl a few day ago, using an errant ball of Malabrigo Twist that I bought more than a year ago. I...
Yay, Fair Isle hat! Id been afraid of Fair Isle for so long - I tried doing it once, when we were living in Tokyo, and it just kept unraveling in my hands, and the whole thing just put me off the tec...
As nerdy as it sounds, I love making New Years Resolutions - I like having goals and things to aspire to, even if I cant manage everything in a single year, and one of the cool things about this blog...
I managed to finish two more projects before the end of the year, though it took me awhile to photograph them. The first was a Spring Beret in a yellow skein (I bought and wound it over a year ago, a...
At the beginning of this year, I resolved to knit seven sweaters, one of which I designed myself, which turned out to be the only knitting resolution I unequivocally kept (the rest were a flat out fa...
Theyre done! Actually theyve been done almost a month now - after spending half the summer working on the first sock, I blazed through the second one over a few bus rides and one day of staying in th...
We never do much during actual Christmas day at my house, so its a perfect time for knitting and watching TV. The happy elf above is, of course, a Korknisser knit in Cascade 220 wool -...
I was really excited for our ten plus hours worth of flights back to the States, because I love knitting on planes and was hoping to get through my much neglected Swallowtail Shawl, which I started o...
Above: the first Arden hat, at Senbon beach back in Numazu! Just a little over one year after I first published it, there are now 100 Arden hats on Ravelry! I know 100 isnt actually that many, b...
Sunset on Lake TiticacaWere home, after an insanely fast journey around Peru > Bolivia > Chile > back to Peru. It was an awesome three weeks, and we saw some of the most extreme and beautifu...
A few (okay, a great many) photos from a four day excursion into the cloud forest two weeks ago, to learn how to use natural dyes with expert weaver Daniel and his lovely family. We left Ollanta...
One of my favorite aspects of working in close proximity to Andean textiles over the last two months has been getting to spend so much time staring at the iconography, or pallay, thats worked into mo...
One of the things I love about Peru is how there are women knitting in public everywhere.
Two current WIPs are this Mara Shawl in madelinetosh DK (sugar plum), and Acer Cardigan, in madtosh vintage (some discontinued wren), the shawl for when Im knitting late at night by the light of TV s...
Hooray, a new (free) pattern! I made Naiya with a single skein of super-soft bulky alpaca weight yarn that I bought in Cuzco and which doesnt appear to be available anywhere else; I think a...
Its done! Actually it was done almost a week ago, but it took me a long time to block, sew buttons and then drag Iain out for some photos in front of the Inca wall on the other side of town. Hey...
Current wip of the moment is a Tea Leaves cardigan in Sanguine Gryphon Codex. Finishing it has become something of an obsession, so Im actually much further along than this photo from earlier in the ...
Another test knit, though I am being woefully late in posting this. This is a super cute pattern by Jess of Sushi Pie, which used less than skein of Manos de Uruguay Silk Blend (way less - I act...
As promised! Actually, I thought he was a ninja when I bought him, but Im okay with him being Batman.
Last Tuesday, I got to go up to a nearby village to take a very simple weaving lesson from the Weavers Cooperative with whom our NGO works. Being tied into a backstrap loom and trying to weave a brac...
This was a test knit for Anke, whose classic, elegant sweater patterns I have long coveted on Ravelry. This was the first time I was ever so bold as to volunteer myself as a test knitter, thoug...
We are back in our small Andean mountain town after a weekend at Machu Picchu! It was a bit of a last minute decision to go, but Im so glad we did - we totally lucked out with the weather, and had an...
Hello from Peru! For the next few months, my boyfriend and I will be volunteering with an NGO up in the Andes that works with local weavers; Ill know more about what were actually doing once arrive, ...
Meant to post this ages ago, but, nonetheless! I was very flattered and excited to be interviewed by Deborah of Interrobang Knits, a gorgeous knitting blog which you should all check out.
Despite Iain arriving last weekend (finally! hooray!) I was able to finish up my Goodale cardigan (the reincarnation of an earlier, doomed February Lady) yesterday afternoon, not long after we left L...
... does anyone else suspect that knitting is to sewing what cooking is to baking?That is all.
above: this photo is so old, its from when I still lived in an apartment with tatami! Oh, February Lady; I dont think I made any progress on you since I took this photo back in ... November, may...
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