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Kitchen Elves

My folks are here from the States, and we’re having a great time. It’s always nice to see them and mom’s cooking just seems to make everything better. I’ve been spending as much time with them as possible, hence the lack of posting this week! Meanwhile, I’ve been working on creating a little elf pattern for the past week, and so I had to come post now that he’s finished....

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Moggy, Queen of Scots – First Attempt

I’ve been working on trying to design my own knit toy, and I tell ya, it’s so much harder than I thought it would be. Who knew there was so much math in knitting?? I’ve knit and reknit, calculated and recalculated, sketched and graphed.. you’d think I was building an aquaduct with all the engineering that went into my wee moggie. So, I’ve completed what I think of as a rough...

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The Ringmaster

I keep telling myself that I gotta quit filling up my blog with knitting stuff, because my reader probably isn’t that interested in my knitting therapy. However, my spirits have been buoyed so much by the silliness of knitting clowns and sheep, that I really can’t help myself. Deniz asked me yesterday how I did these so fast, but it’s really just because they’re very small. I can...

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Mistaken Identity

I can’t tell you how therapeutic it is to knit little creatures. You just can’t make a tiny little mouse tux and be worried or upset at the same time. I decided that I wanted to have a go at making a Highland Cow. For those who have never been here, they look something like this: For my effort, I modified Barbara Prime’s Cowboy pattern, added the shaggy hair and made long horns from a...

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Sheep, Uteruses, and Ravelry

(If knitting talk makes your eyes glaze over, at least skim down to the uterus at the bottom. Or not. Depending on how creeped out you are at the possibilities here.) I’ve been experimenting with various needle sizes, types of yarn and ways of assembling the Barbara Prime knit sheep pattern and I’ve been having fun with these. I plan to make others of her patterns, and can start now that...

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Little Lambs Get Chilly

Well, our power was out for several hours yesterday. Holy crap, it was cold! So, I practiced knitting for a while, trying to learn to get my stitches just perfect. My sweetheart was looking at my little practice swatches in a slightly puzzled way, as though completely unable to understand the difference between each one while I groaned, “But the rows are so uneven!” I’ve been making quite...

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Little Lambs Eat Ivy

Just a quick little post today. I have been knitting to ease the boredom of being 90% restricted to the horizontal position, and I found a pattern that was just adorable. This little lamb took me one Star Trek movie and two episodes of NCIS to finish. You can download this pattern free from Fuzzy Mitten. If you’re a knitter, you really should check out her site. She has a ton of really cute figures...

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How It’s Supposed To Work

So, the way I’m supposed to write goes something like this: (Table A) 1. Get a brilliant idea 2. Flesh out idea in a rudimentary outline 3. Name characters, decide on location, that type of jazz 4. Sit down every day and just flippin’ write it. But… Other than blog posts and emails, I haven’t written anything in months (and months and months). It feels wretched, but sometimes life...

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Ka-Nit

I promised Kate that I would post a picture of my latest knitting project. She helped me early this summer get started knitting again. I hadn’t really done it in, well, decades! (Damn, I’m old.) I think it’s going to take me for-freaking-ever to finish, but in the meantime it keeps me warm as I go. My only complaint really is that the needles (aluminium) get heavy as I get all of those...