Jun 6
OK, I'll be the first to admit that the last post was perhaps a bit premature. Hey, I was excited to have gotten something finished.
Thus it was that, after really looking at the difference between my clown-like collar and the original collar, I decided to go back and take a look at the instructions to see just where the hell it went off the rails.
Jun 3
Finally, I got something finished!
These pics were taken before I washed and blocked it, and the sleeves seemed a little on the short side at the time — but fortunately I was able to block them out a little longer. 
Here we are in the home stretch of this project! and if I say it myself, it is coming out darned cute! Can't wait to see how it comes out for anyone else. Please do share your version of this project in the comments!
Continue reading "Provence Baby Cardigan, Part 5 – finishing"
OK, here we are with a cute little sweater body, ready to start on the sleeves. Oh, but first we need to do a little… MATH..jpg)
Or, you could decide it was supposed to be a vest all along. I believe I *just about* got the whole body out of one skein of yarn, too, so if you make it a little shorter and edge it in something else… let me know how that works out for ya, k? 
Feb 3
So my sister — who, as you may know, is primarily responsible for starting my knitting career — lives in Chicago — where, as you may also know, they got completely socked in by snow yesterday.
Sep 8
You know that stupid cutesy saying,
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
OK, OK, I bow to reality.
Tomorrow we are getting on a plane to attend my niece's wedding in Chicago. I promised myself I'd get the pictures of the sweater knitters posted before the trip. I'd have had it done already, actually, if it weren't that when I sat down to do it last Tuesday, I found out my camera was still sitting in DH's truck. At work. With all the pictures still on it.
Aug 16
Wowsers, it's been an eventful couple of months at my house. At my NEW house, of course — where I'd say we are about 2/3 unpacked by now.
I'm estimating it will take until December to get the rest unpacked and put away, donated, recycled, or thrown away. Way back in the beginning, I said this was going to be a year-long project. We first went out househunting with the realtor on December 29th, so at this point I'm still sticking with my original estimate. (Although I keep hearing from people about how they have boxes still to unpack from moves that were three years ago.)
Just a brief post to remind anyone who is interested in the Summer Sweater Class at Garden Home — registration for summer term started yesterday morning. (The start of THPRD registration is usually pretty crazy, what with people trying to get their kids into every class under the sun, so I held off a day on the reminder. No one needs to spend extra knitting time on hold.)
Hey, I finally put together a list for What I Want to Knit This Year!
Yeah, well, so what if it's mid-February?
This idea has been kind of nagging at me for a month or so — but what finally prompted me to get it down on paper was an incident last week, when Linda asked, "So what are you knitting for fun?" — after seeing what I was knitting on for work — and I had to say, "Nothing." That, my friends, is a sad state of affairs, and one I thought I ought to rectify. I've gotten started on it, as you can see to the right, although that item happens to be the very last one on the list. You'll have to read ALL THE WAY THROUGH if you want to know what that noise is all about.
On about.com's knitting section, I found a poll for "What are Your Knitting Resolutions for 2009?"
OK, so it's a year out of date, but I figure things can't have changed all that much in a year.
Continue reading "Knitting Resolutions (2009 Redux Edition)"
Ho Ho Ho, a belated Merry Christmas to you both and especially, a Happy New Year!
I took an inadvertent holiday break last week, because the post I had slaved over all day Tuesday turned out to have — issues.
The other day I got an email from an old college friend. This guy is pretty much on the cutting edge of technology, and I have an idea that he finds my career change from "engineer" to "knitting teacher" pretty much unfathomable, and probably a little unsettling.
Dec 1
OK, OK, I admit that in the last post on this subject, I didn't spell out every little detail about exactly how I was going to finish this bad boy off… but then there would be no suspense left for the big surprise ending.
A few posts back, 
I mentioned that I seem to have developed not so much a New Year's Resolution, as an End-Of-Year Resolution: to finish up the last few remaining UFO's in my knitting pile. And so, I've been battling with this one.
The other week, I was teaching a class and, as usual, at the beginning we went around the table and did introductions. Often I ask people to give their name, how long they've been knitting, and then some kind of tidbit about their knitting: maybe their most recent FO, or what they are currently working on.
Good heavens. It’s been a week and a half. I’m a delinquent blogger.
According to the thesaurus, you could also say, "behindhand, derelict, disregardful, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, lax, lazy, negligent, regardless, remiss, slack, thoughtless, uncaring, unmindful".
Sorry gang! I did indeed speak too soon, and the cardigan knitalong will indeed have to be postponed.
In fact, at the moment I can’t reschedule it either — so let’s call it "cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances".
Update 5-2-09: Uh-oh.
Houston, we may have a scheduling problem. Don’t swatch anything just yet…
OK, OK. I said we’d start the next sweater knitalong in May, didn’t I?
So, NEXT FRIDAY, May 8th, we will kick off another one.
Dec 9
As anyone who has been reading lately knows, the Friday Group class regulars decided that they wanted to do a top-down raglan sweater, knit-along style.
Only thing is, they are all different shapes and sizes — being that they are human beings and all.
Oct 19
Last Friday was our first top-down sweater knitalong class, and I’m so tickled with my Friday knitters, I just have to tell you.
I’ve got seven — count ‘em, SEVEN — knitters who are going to knit a top-down sweater along with me!! It will be a project extending over a few months, so watch this space for some pictures of FO’s in about March or so. (Although we’ll probably get some pics along the way, too, I suspect.)
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