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moving day I've moved my blog to typepad. I've decided not to make a big deal of it, so the new site will be evolving over time rather than being kicked off in a complete state today. But I will start posting there - and stop posting here - as of today. The new site will still include the insights, the wit, the charm, the pictures of squares. Thank you for visiting, and please change your

ice sixteen * It was so hot today, freakishly hot for Portland. We broke a heat record with 103 degrees at 2:47 this afternoon. I made an icy blue square. My 16th one. Not much to be learned about knitting from these squares, just fun. Sorry for the lack of educational value, but my brain is a pool of molten stuff today. * Ice sixteen refers to ice nine, a fictional and incredibly

circling their wagons, eating their young 1. The lacealong. Here's my gibson girl sleeve in koigu. The pattern is from the Summer IK. The whitish line at the top is not a mistake (though that's easily possible; this is my first lace). That's my life line. Yay. 2. Cotton Socks. Following the pattern for basic socks from the Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook gave me a

angel tart free pattern, please distribute! My friend Kim I designed this little seed-shaped bag to try out two beautiful, luxurious yarns. It's reversible, it's fun, and it's free! Download it as a pdf file (using Adobe Acrobat Reader) by clicking the name or photo: angel tart pattern

approaching more For a brief time I thought I'd stick with my 2 major projects. But then I rewarded myself like a little puppy. I did a very hard 180-degree turn on my bike, going down a ramp at the park. It's hard to describe how utterly impossible this would have been for me just a month ago. So to celebrate my incredible improvement, I went here and bought some of this in #803. I'm

life lessons Yesterday's square got to ride on the Tri-Met bus and then wait around at Enterprise and drive home in a Dodge Neon. Yesterday's square learned some important lessons: 1. The bus has become a rolling social-service-substitute. Every person, regardless of how normal they look, will begin muttering and cursing and talking to themselves within 2 minutes of the bus pulling

don't you wish? Don't you wish your knitting could do your work for you? Here are my squares trying to write a grant. It's sweet of them, but they have no idea what they're doing.

inspected by 47 That's my friend Kim's cat, Rimsky, who is huge, like 22 pounds, but not at all fat. Just a great big gorgeous cat. He loves knitted things. What a wonderful guy. It's nice to have something nice in your life, like Rimsky, when there's so much crappiness out there. Yesterday some vandals bashed in our entire car - all windows and lights broken, mirrors torn off, soft top

big daddy square Believe me when I tell you this is a really big square. How big? Here it is with one of my normal 8" squares. Why and how? In a fit of inspiration and generosity, which as usual came too late and while I have too much going on, I've decided to make an additional psychedelic squares afghan so I can give one to my friend who's moving into a new home in Seattle on

how many ways are there to photograph a square? Soon I'll have to start taking the squares out, to cafes, the symphony, maybe even theme parks (see July 2nd post). In other news, Cozy of the Week is up (given a day off for our bank holiday, related to the national holiday in which we celebrate "independence" by blowing shit up and scaring the wits out of poor little dogs and cats).

the weight of a square There was a question in the comments about whether this blanket is going to weigh alot. Hmmm. I hadn't thought about it at all, I just really liked the cotton classic - the stitches, as seen above in today's square, look really, well, nice. So I weighed some squares (which are, it turns out, a bit less than 1 oz. each), and I did a calculation based on a 100-square

blackjack This reminds me of this I guess this qualifies yesterday's square for the psychedelic afghan as one of my candy along projects. Only about 96 more squares to go! Speaking of knitalongs, the scrapalong is moving ahead with a delicious striped "technicolor dream bag" by Carrie (June 29) and progress on gorgeous sweaters by Erica,and Jessica. Marie finished two scrap

old problems, new beginnings OK, so here is morticia so close to being finished. And here is the damn neckline. I've ripped it once and am reticent to work on it again as it stretches every time I touch it. I have 4 different types/sections of bound off stitches (front and back) and decrease areas (over both shoulders). My ideas - bad and maybe okay - have ranged from knitting a

fo Finally something finished, however small. I was beginning to feel like all I could do was start stuff. I actually really like this little thing. It's a multidirectional scarf knit on size 3 needles in Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock (the Vera colorway). It's for my petite mother-in-law, who at 98 pounds was unable to help me weed my garden because her weight was insufficient to leverage

knitting porn I was even going to gauze it up with photoshop, but then I realized that with knitting porn - unlike, I'd imagine, with sex porn - detail enhances desire.

i am applying myself To the seaming of morticia. I've already ripped three shoulder seams out. Give me strength. This site called helloknitty, which I've never seen before, has been helpful. Here (it's a pdf) are the instructions for different kinds of seams. While I was there I also had to buy a pattern for a cute tank top. Had to. Focus schmocus. UPDATE 7:33 PM: I did it! I