csusch's Xanga Site - Weblog - Tags

Weblog » Tags » knitting (all)

Making some progress

After several weeks now of knitting everyday. I think I'm finally making some progress on my Boundary Waters Shawl. Even though the website says that this is a new pattern, it is a reprint of a pattern I bought at least…
It all started with a request on Ravelry

Before the holidays last year, I was reading the SpinCity Ravelry group and there was a post from Kathe requesting if anyone would be interested in spinning some Qiviut. I thought how interesting that would be, why would…
Catching up with completed projects

After about a month of knitting, I've managed to complete a few projects. First, I finally finished the Fana Mittens. In these pictures you can see the cashmere on the inside before I smoothed them all out. These …
Fana anyone?

So after frogging the Fana Tuft Mittens from the book Folk Mittens (Thanks Mom & Dad for the Christmas gift!) because they were too big, I managed to get the body of the first mitten done and the cuff of the secon…
2008 Knitting Resolutions

Now that the gifts have all been opened. Here are pics of the remaining gifts which I made this Christmas: These are a pair of socks for my Mom made with Cotton Cascade Fixation. They were my first toe up socks. …
I'm supposed to be working on upgrading the website, but ...

I'm on vacation this week. I really needed the break from work and travel so it's certainly a nice change not to be getting up at 5:30 a.m every morning. I set this time aside to work on upgrading the website, writing…
Rhinebeck was a blast!

I'm still struck by the community of knitters who came out in force at the NYS Sheep and Wool festival this past weekend. It turned out to be like a reunion of like minded folks hooking up to share in the awesome surrou…
Need to Spin more Buffalo

After flying back and forth twice to California, first for an E 2.0 conference and then to present with Eric at NewMediaExpo, I had 20 hours of pure knitting time. Here's what I've got now: I finished 4 repeats of th…
How could I forget it?

Yesterday I was not paying attention when I left the house for work. I forgot my knitting! I was nearly done with the foot of my second sock with Cascade fixation and thought I could finish it on my commute but I left …
Destashing?

This is my second attempt at writing this blog entry, since last week my computer died right in the middle of writing it. So, my progress so far on my Knitting from Stash manifesto: I haven't bought any yarn since Dece…