Category: FO Files

Fair Isle Just Doesn’t Work for Socks

Today I have an FO to share and some free “experience”.  You know what experience is, right? “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” ~~ Dan Stanford Ta-da!  Here is the latest in socks for DH. I was pretty against the idea of knitting plain navy blue socks — how…

More recent FO’s

Here’s some eye candy for ya:  a few FO’s! Sari Silk bag:  this was knit from some recycled-sari silk yarn, although at this point I’m not sure exactly which manufacturer.  This major FO accomplishment started life as “Unbiased”, a bag pattern from Knitty, Fall 2004. Unfortunately, mine was biased.  When I sewed the pieces together,…

Wrap Cardigan, Part 6 – closure

Ahem, ahem.  OK, yes, you are right — the last post in this series was in July.  Just barely not in June.  July 1, to be exact. Of course, I did include this bad boy in the UFOlympics, so technically, the last post on this project was more like, oh, late August. But enough about…

The Coolest Thing I Ever Knit

The other day I realized I am into my 5th year of what I still think of as my “new career”:  teaching knitting, writing patterns, and perhaps most importantly, not being a corporate slave. During that time, I’ve met and taught a whole bunch of knitters.  I can’t honestly say that I remember all of them…