Posted in A Hard Day's Knit on Nov 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Just a quick drive-by post today, since tomorrow we are leaving to drive to Ohio for Thanksgiving.
I’m thankful that I’ve gotten my knitting mojo back, and have made some decent progress on Margot. Just a few more rows of the front band of garter stitch and the body will be done!
(That ridge in the chest […]
Posted in A Hard Day's Knit on Nov 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
OK, so no update photo for Margot.
I had a bit of a setback last weekend, and ended up ripping back several inches of work in order to reduce the number of short rows in the bust. I am now beyond the point where I stopped to rip back before, but I have lost some ground […]
Posted in All You Need is Yarn, A Hard Day's Knit on Nov 13th, 2009 3 Comments »
Now that my knitting mojo has been back, I wanted to jump into a bigger than normal (for me at least) project. I have a lot of sweater-quantities of yarn in my stash and a lot of sweater patterns in my Ravelry queue, but I’ve never really knit many sweaters. I’ve always thought of myself […]
Posted in Across the Knitterverse, A Hard Day's Knit on Jul 14th, 2008 4 Comments »
Knitters are everywhere, and I think that is so cool.
On Friday morning before work, Brian and I waited out in front of our local AT&T store in order to get our hands on the new iphones. We were prepared with Starbucks, chairs-in-a-bag, a book (for Brian), and knitting (for me) to keep us comfortable […]
Posted in All You Need is Yarn, A Hard Day's Knit on Jul 10th, 2008 3 Comments »
The Summer of Socks knit-along has already been in progress for a few weeks, and I’ve only just started my first pair of SOS socks. I was actually holding off, trying to finish my 9 to 5 socks before starting a pair for SOS, but with a good portion of SOS already over, I […]
Posted in The Ballad of Amy (and Brian), Across the Knitterverse, All You Need is Yarn, A Hard Day's Knit, With a Little Help from my Friends on May 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
Today is my birthday.
And this weekend is the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival.
I originally wasn’t planning to go, but last weekend Kelly and Aileen asked if I would want to come along with them, so we plan to go tomorrow. I’ve been pretty bad about sticking to any kind of a yarn-diet lately (curse […]
Posted in A Hard Day's Knit on Apr 16th, 2008 11 Comments »
The Lace Chuppah came along on a trip to Ohio this past weekend. My parents took everything out of their dining room and my dad helped me block it on the dining room floor.
There it is in all its glory…all 103 inches by 103 inches of it!
My blocking wires were too long to fit […]
Posted in All You Need is Yarn, A Hard Day's Knit on Mar 29th, 2008 3 Comments »
Monkey Socks that is… (I’m excited to finally have an excuse to use that Beatles song as a blog post title!)
Last weekend, after finishing the Peacock Plume socks, I wanted to start a new pair of socks. Over the past year I’ve accumulated sock yarn much faster than I’ve knit socks (more about […]
Posted in All You Need is Yarn, A Hard Day's Knit on Mar 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
Love
Love
Love
I’m in love with everything about my newest project. (Not that I really need a new project, but I couldn’t help myself.)
The color and softness of the yarn…Malabrigo Lace in the Velvet Grapes colorway. This is one of those yarns that gets progressively better. Nice in a skein, very pretty wound into […]
Posted in A Hard Day's Knit on Mar 1st, 2008 7 Comments »
Guess what I did last night…
I finished knitting the last round of the Lace Chuppah! That is me knitting the last row. Even still on the needles, its like a huge fluffy blanket. Since we don’t have enough unoccupied floor space in our house to block it, I will be taking it to my parents […]