A Good Day

Today was a very good day: A sure sign of Spring – my Carolina Jessamine is getting ready for the party, along with the early blooming trees budding all over the place: A near-completed project at work (or at least the light at the end of the tunnel for phase 1, each phase is so [...]

Oh, Dear.

First of all, thank you all so much for the kind comments about my Chuck’s Cabled Sock, you gave me such a nice boost! A couple of folks have asked about the yarn I’m using – It is Lang Jawoll Superwash in 8395 Light Brown and 8305 Light Grey (which is actually a powdery blue-grey). [...]

A New Heel

I should be halfway through the foot of my Chuck’s Cabled Sock by now, but I took a small timeout to give some extra attention to the heel. As written, the heel flap is in a bi-color diamond pattern, but the instructions indicate that the background color should be broken at the start of the [...]

Bobble Blue

Welcome to my powder room – Pardon the toilet paper! This was my very first sweater with set-in sleeves. It took me quite a while to get through it because of this, but now I feel much more confident. My stitch gauge was right on, but my row gauge was off and I had a [...]

Cable Crossings – In which I make a tutorial, and am deflated

Here I am at the fifth repeat on the first Chuck’s Cabled Sock. Upon reaching needle #4, I realized that one row back, on the last cable crossing row, I had missed each crossing, on this needle only. I couldn’t bring myself to tink back and re-cross the row. I know, I know, it’s just [...]

The Avetts

Ok, so this entire post is ganked directly from a promo email that I got from the Avett Brothers list, but although it’s a promo, it’s so well written and hits home with me (It doesn’t hurt that I LOVE their music, and am so looking forward to this new album!) Check them out. They [...]