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Solstice 2015
And another Solstice is in the history books. I don't have a lot of photos of the actual event, John has a few on his “real” camera, but we tend to not take a lot of photos once the actual party...
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Baby Helen, and Baby Zoe
It’s a real finished project! One of my coworkers had her baby very early a couple of weeks ago, at 25 weeks. (Baby Helen and mama are both doing OK.) I didn’t have anything hand knit ready for her,...
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Mexico!
Guayabitos, to be specific. We spent a week at exactly this same spot last year. We loved it so much that we booked for this year as soon as we got home. I won't do a long post with lots of photos,...
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Finished Stuff, Forgot To Post
It figures. I actually finish a couple of knitting projects and then forget all about blogging it. First up is John’s Crazy Hat of Many Colors: Project Details: Pattern: Toboggan Hat, modified for the...
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Decisions, Decisions
Or, Cast On Saturday! I finished my Seahawks Color Affection earlier this week. It's not blocked, so you don't get the Finished Project post just yet. But that left me without a...
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How Can You Forget A Whole Finished Project?
That’s me, right there, someone who forgets a whole knitting project. You’d think that with as few things as I finish, I’d remember to put them up here. This is the Hawk Affection Shawl. Sorry about...
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Can You Guess?
There is a new baby addition to my extended family anticipated this fall. My nephew and his wife are “expecting”. In uncharacteristic fashion for me, I cast on as soon as they announced the sex of the...
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Officially Summer Patio Season!
We did a little planting this weekend. We have a nice sheltered patio in the front of our house, with space for lots of potted plants. We spent a little time yesterday and today getting things...
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Well, This is Going To Be Fun
Or, Please Send Whisky I was moving right along on the Eerily Electrifyingly Blue Baby Project. We took a trip to the Olympia Farmers’ Market today to stock up. I shoved it in my bag to knit on the...
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September 7th
Or, Blazing Blue Behemoth The pressure is on. This is for my soon-to-be-born great nephew, who is due to make his debut on September 7th. I have 20 rows (lonnnng rows-there will be 600 stitches on...
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More Time For Knitting
John and I bought an Instant Pot a month or so ago, and LOVE it. We had a traditional stove top pressure cooker that we've used for years, and have upgraded that once or twice over time to better...
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Fritz!
Or, Knit Faster, Lorette! He's here! My grand nephew was born a few weeks early. Parents and baby are all fine. His name is Fritz Samuel Meske. His grandpa, my brother, was named Samuel Fritz, after...
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Helping
Willie thinks he's helping. The knitting marathon continues for Baby Fritz's Blisteringly Blue Baby Blanket. It's a big square, with a knitted on edging that consists of eleventy billion repeats of the...
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Knitting Done!
I finished the edging on the Blue Blue Blue Baby Blanket late last night. I decided to save the grafting bit until daylight when I was rested (I know, an uncharacteristic decision for me). Grafting...
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Fritz’s Baby Blanket
As promised, I’m finally getting around to posting a “Finished Project” update. I finished this right before we left on vacation in September, and then just forgot about posting. Project Details:...
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Deep Stash, and the Joys of Rejects
I did a little stash reorganization last month. My entire stash is photographed and recorded in a database by numbered box, but it’s gotten pretty haphazard over the years. The boxes were mostly filled...
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Yarn Chicken!
I've been very slowly working away on my Douglas Fir hap shawl. The pattern is knit end to end. You cast on a small number of stitches (30 in this case), then increase a few stitches each repeat for...
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Rogue
This makes me happy. I'm sitting here early Saturday morning knitting away on my new Rogue sweater, while wearing my old bedraggled Rogue sweater. Life is good. The word is still out on the yarn for...
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Snow Day
We had a bit of snow last night, and since I'm off work today, I get to enjoy Snowmaggedon from the comfort of my own home. In other news, I finished the Douglas Fir Hap shawl the day before...
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Seams!
I do love knitting, including sewing seams. I'd rather sew pieces together than go through all the crazy contortions that some patterns have you do to avoid them. This is the first of two baby...
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