Knittish

I’m currently obsessed with my Stumptown Sock pattern, and I think I might even eclipse my previous most-knit socks: Monkey Socks (ten pairs made way back in the day); Sundae Socks (16 pairs and counting, so actually, I probably will NOT make more Stumptowns than Sundaes); and Otherwise Engaged (7 pairs finished). Right now, I’m finished with 6 pairs of …

Here’s a wee hint: if you’re trying to get more socks finished for the Summertime Sock Knitting Extravaganza Knitted Wit & I are hosting, but have just glanced at the calendar and realized time is running shorter than you thought it was, check out Winter Weekends. DK, ankle-length socks equals fast and furious sock knitting. You can surely finish another …

I’ve completed five pairs of socks so far for the Summertime Sock Knitting Extravaganza Lorajean from Knitted Wit and I have been hosting. It’s so much fun, and there’s no end in sight, particularly for my obsession with my Stumptown Sock pattern. It’s so funny, because when I published this pattern in 2015 I was madly in love with it, …

My latest release, the Punch Bowl Shawl (the first release in Year Two of the League of Busy B’s) is a crescent-shaped shawl, created by working increases on the outer edge of the shawl only. This can pose a bit of a problem, blocking-wise, and, since I’ve had some queries, I thought I’d do a quick-and-dirty how-to-block post, with the …

There is this feeling I get when pieces of a pattern/project click together in the most delightful way. It doesn’t happen all of the time, which means when it does, I feel like whistling my merry way through every stitch. That exact feeling happened with this pattern, the first League of Busy B’s Year Two pattern, the Punch Bowl Shawl. …

I’m super excited about Year Two of the League of Busy B’s. It’s a pattern-and-social club, with fun, friends, fiber, and fabulous patterns that are the kind you can work on while life is happening. Or while you’re wrestling with life. Or doing life. Or trying to avoid life. Whatever your relationship with the things that life is throwing at …

Lorajean from Knitted Wit and I were plotting, as we do, and we were wondering what kind of knitting thing we should get into this summer. You’ll never guess what popped into our heads (yes, you will). SOCKS! It’s definitely my go-to summer (or any time, really) on-the-go project. It’s small, it’s portable, it’s infinitely customizable, I can’t even count how …

That’s all I completed in March, after a whopping five pairs in February. Oh, well, it all comes out in the wash, I guess. My one lone pair is a pair of Otherwise Engaged (otherwise known as my new favorite sock pattern). In a one-of-a-kind-but-closely-related-to-Monet’s-Garden skein of Knitted Wit Victory Sock, these have already been firmly engulfed in my wearing …

20 years. “In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.” -Joss Whedon Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns 20 this year, and Tina from Blue Moon Fiber Arts and I decided to celebrate by doing what we do best: she designed a bunch of Buffy-themed …