FOs: oatmeal and ginger

These are both from two weeks ago but it took awhile for me to set up a tripod. But they're both done! The Ginger Skirt is done! Please excuse the wrinkled skirt and the extremely awkward poses...

happy happy valentines!

fo: p u r l s c a r f for maggie

Hooray, it's done! The congratulatory purl scarf for my sister is done! I used Malabrigo Worsted, madelinetosh merino light and Rowan kidsilk haze, and I love the way they look together. I stopped...

blue skies

Saturday was all early morning drives up the PCH to Malibu and playing with this: ... which came in the mail on Friday night. I knew how to sew years ago, before I left for Vietnam, but was never...

wip: p u r l s c a r f

My baby sister is getting a children's book published (!!!) so as a congratulations present, I'm knitting her a scarf in her favorite color. She picked the base yarn (Malabrigo Worsted in Sapphire...

wip: o a t m e a l

I keep meaning to take photos of this in progress but the knitting is going so fast that this is the first change I got. Massive needles = awesomeness, especially because work has ramped up the...

fo: i n t h r e e s

First FO of 2013 is also my first ever knitted gift for a baby! I don't know many people with babies - or at least, not people I know well enough to spring a handmade knitted gift on - but two...

wip: i n t h r e e s

Way better at starting projects than finishing them lately: also on the needles is this cute baby sweater for my friends' new baby girl - In Threes, knitted in Lorna's Laces Shepard Worsted. Oh my...

wip : l a u r e l

I've had this skein of madtosh vintage (in Glazed Pecan) for years now - I bought it when I lived in Japan on one of my sporadic yarn binge international orders from WEBS - and am finally doing...

vietnam

Absolutely nothing to do with knitting, but a few more snapshots of Vietnam... Whistles for sale! I bought one for my sister and she can't figure out how to make noise with it. Suggestions welcome....

wips: y e l l o w

Some snapshots of some very early-in-progress works-in-progress and also from last month's whirlwind trip to Vietnam, because, yellow! They're not much to look at yet but I have high hopes for...

oh and also

One more resolution for 2013? Figure out what needles I have, and don't have (or had and then somehow lost in between here, Peru, the UK and Asia), and fill in the gaps accordingly. And also stop...

2013 knitting resolutions

I made a lot of knitted resolutions last year and, rather spectacularly, barely kept any of them. Pretty much all the plans I had in place this time last year ended up falling through and in the...

holiday cards!

Oh dear god, it's December. It's a bit of an understatement to say there hasn't been a whole lot of knitting or wayfaring or pretty much anything other than work this year - but despite being...

its june!

Oh my god, how is it June already? This year is flying by. The Ingenue sweater, not so much - I finished the body (finally!) and am making my way through the first sleeve now. In a perfect world Id...

one skein & one month in...

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...

april snapshots

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...

snapshots of new orleans!

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,...

fo: bandana cowl

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....

fo: selbu modern

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...

2012 knitting resolutions

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...

last FOs of 2011

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,...

2011 sweaters (and other stuff)

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...

FO : traveling marilindas

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...

happy holidays!

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 - but my...

nupps on a plane

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...

100 Arden hats!

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, but...

home!

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 beautiful...

cloud forest natural dye workshop!

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 at...

pallay

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...