Archive for September, 2009
Charity Knitting – Afghan Squares for Pine Ridge
Last year, I found some scraps of yarn in my stash and in the course of just a few days, I crocheted some afghan squares. These squares were sent to a woman Louisiana, who seamed them together with other squares, and sent the resulting afghans to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where people [...]
Filed in: Crochet
Sweater Progress!
I’m making progress on the Central Park (Non) Hoodie! I’ve completed the back, both fronts, and one sleeve. The second sleeve is on the needles, just past the cuff and at the start of the main cable section. Here are all of the pieces, displayed on our dining room table. While they may look a [...]
Filed in: Knitting
Crafts at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival
Over the weekend, Mr. Martini and I traveled down to Bardstown, Kentucky to check out the annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival. While we were a tad disappointed with the lack of actual bourbon available (apparently, tastings are held at fundraiser events during the week), we had a great time walking around in the sunshine, checking out [...]
Filed in: Out and About
A Note About Pin-Blocking
I’ve had a few of my non-knitting readers ask about the pin-blocking process I used on my Ishbel and Forest Canopy scarves in my last post. For the most part, I used the Yarn Harlot’s instructions from this post she wrote on the subject, with some minor tweaks, mostly due to lack of foresight on [...]
Filed in: Knitting
FOs: Lace Shawl(ettes) aka – Scarves
Lace knitting always intimidated me. Not because of the actual knitting, though, despite my recent failures. What really intimidated me about lace knitting was the blocking. The soaking the garment, the stretching it out, the pinning it down evenly. I felt sure I would mess up somehow, that I would stretch the item beyond recognition, [...]
FO: Baby Sweaters
This Sunday I had an Amazing Day of Knitting Productiveness. Mr. Martini slept in, and Sunday morning I sat on the couch, watched two movies (Good Night & Good Luck, and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and put the finishing touches on two baby sweaters and a shrug. Then I washed them, and [...]
Central Park Hoodie – Progress (Sort Of)
You’d think that with the 5-day “mini-vacation” that I had this weekend, I’d have gotten a lot more progress done on the Central Park Hoodie. But a few things got in my way, including: My very first spa visit on Friday. I got a facial, along with a foot and hand massage. After that, I [...]
Filed in: Knitting
WIP: Central Park Hoodie, Take Two
I couldn’t wait to get started with the yarn I wound last Sunday, and finally started a project I’ve been wanting to complete for a long time – a Central Park Hoodie. I love this design, and it’s exactly the type of sweater I love to wear in the fall and winter. I love this [...]
Filed in: Knitting
