Time: 6 hours
Cost: $12 - $14
Skills: knitting in the round with circular needles
Level: beginnner
You can wear it with the ribbon woven through the whole thing, or (how I’m wearing it now) with the ribbon woven through just the eyelets between front &/or back straps and cinched up a bit.
Calling this a 1-ball pattern seems a […]

All those dyed shirts, cut into strips. The 2-color ones were made from sweatshirt rags, dyed separately & then stitched into big loops. The darker balls all started gray. I’m carrying a strand of wine-colored Schulana Morbido (80% wool/20% nylon, sorta lofty thick/thin) along the whole way.
I’m trying to decide what stitch to use. The […]

Time: 8 hours?
Cost: $12
Skills: Knitting in the round on circulars, cables
Level: Beginner
I just love my little capelet (is this actually a capelet? I’m not 100% on the terminology, but it seems too little to call a poncho…). It’s toasty, but light and short enough (elbow-length) to throw over anything and still have a pretty normal […]

I just got an email from the editor who’s been working on my book & she’s leaving for a new job next week. Does this mean my book will just fall through the cracks? Allegedly no, but I’m still nervous. Especially since I still haven’t gotten the manuscript acceptance portion of my advance. Everyone keeps […]

New Webs order, yum! Blew enough to qualify for the 25% off discount.

There’s a bag of Berocco Pleasure (66% Angora/29% Merino Wool/5% Nylon $59.99/$44.99 after discount for a bag of 10 50g balls). It’s a chainette yarn, which will hopefully minimize shedding. I got navy, to match the 3 balls I ordered and really liked a […]

Time: 4 hrs
Cost: $0
Skills: Knitting in the rnd on dpns, single crochet.
Level: advanced beginner
You could easily change the size just by adjusting the yarn weight & needle size. He’s all scraps, so he’s free, hurrah!
I didn’t weigh the yarn, so I don’t have exact quantities, but I’ll just make a very generous guess. Use […]

I’ll take some better pictures in natural light tomorrow, but for now, here he is:

and also:

Besides Le Critter, I cut out several shirts’ worth of strips for my rug.

I’m dying a bunch of t-shirts that I’ll be cutting into strips to make a version of the Alterknits rug. I’m using wider strips & maybe bigger needles, and I’m thinking of carrying a strand of bulky wool along with for extra texture and strength. There was a giant rag bag in the hallway when […]

Hooray! Now I can feel free to ramble endlessly about knitting without destroying the Housewife. I’m starting to modify the lovely Girls Suck theme for Wordpress, and right now, I’m working on a little critter to use as my mascot. Orignally, I had a sort of retro navigation icon thingy I’d made before I decided […]