Archive for the 'Knitting' Category



So it’s been a week……

Published on October 26, 2006

In Knitting….. In honor of “Socktober,” I’ve been doing socks.  Finished a stripe-y pair for one of the wee fellows, pictured here.  Finished a pair a plain deep red ones, and have the first of a pair of plain dark green ones ready to graft.  Got that far at the eye doctor’s office this afternoon, and […]


Current mindless project

Published on October 10, 2006

Here’s what I’m working on.   Easy, no thinking – well, not very much.  It’s from the Fall 2006 edition of Vogueknitting Knit Simple.  It asks for a heavy tweeded yarn, which I didn’t have.  But I found a bag in my stash with two shades of blue, light and dark.  Caron Simply Soft.  For this […]


And we celebrate October how????

Published on October 3, 2006

My daughter informs me that, because it is October, I must knit socks.  Why???  Because it’s October.  Because it’s gonna get much colder soon?   No, because it’s October.  You want socks?  No, I’ll knit my own damn socks!   Are we sending them off somewhere?  Donating them to some cause? No. Then why do I have to knit […]