First: my new Warmer Fleeps are, indeed, warm enough! The exact shape of the mittens could use some adjusting (the mitten top needs more overlap, and the thumbs are too long) but we walked half a mile to breakfast in 14°F (-10°C) weather and none of my fingers froze. Nice. Second: I got to finally wear my Breathe and Hope shawl in public. We...
The brioche blanket continues… I’m just over the halfway point (where the colourways crossed, in the dark blue section). The colours are even more vibrant in person, and I am really enjoying knitting this. It’s been a perfect project for knit nights and football games, because it doesn’t take much attention. Except for the brief moment where both strands of yarn were the same...
Northern Virginia is starting to open up again, and I guess that means I might have to leave the house… so out came the sewing machine, and I made a couple of masks for Michael and me. The fabric is leftovers from the curtains we made when we first bought the house! I used this tutorial and found it pretty easy to follow. First...
It came up in conversation with my mom that my grandma is cold all the time. So I decided to crank out a wrap on the machine, using yarn that I already had in my stash, and send her a surprise bit of warmth in the mail. The first attempt was less than successful, but the second attempt worked out just fine! For this...
My test swatch came out of the laundry looking just as nice as when it went in, so I applied the cable border to the whole blanket, wove in the ends, and did a small celebratory dance before arranging it on the couch for a photoshoot. It’s squishy and warm and I couldn’t be happier with it! I used 8.5 of the eleven balls...
Picking a colour scheme for an open-concept house is difficult, and even more difficult when one tries to take into account the furniture, rugs, and artwork from previous houses. But things are starting to come together. We’ve painted underneath the chair rail in the dining room a deep teal, and the living room has always had quite a bit of burgundy. So when we...
Although summer did its best to hang on long past its usual farewell, autumn is finally beginning to take hold. We had our first frost warning of the season this week. I gave in and turned the heat on (just at night, though) and put the electric blanket back on the bed… then I remembered that I’d been crocheting an afghan, and brought it...
Now that the mornings are dark and nippy, evenings are coming sooner and sooner, and some of my small summer projects are finished or nearly so, I’m starting to think about fall and winter projects! There’s so much I want to do… It would be nice if the rest of this blanket would crochet itself, but that’s not going to happen. I’m going to...
Back in June, I started crocheting a replacement couch-blanket for the cats. I began with one ball of Loops & Threads Impeccable in the “Tropical Storm” colourway and added eight more skeins in July when I found a 40% off coupon, but I knew I still didn’t have enough to finish the blanket. On Friday I was right near the artsy-crafts store, so I...
After much deliberation, I picked out the yarn I’m going to use for the new cat-blanket. It’s Loops & Threads Impeccable, a soft acrylic that doesn’t seem like it will be too awful to use, in the “Tropical Storm” colourway. Then I picked a pattern, Bernat’s Mitered Squares Baby Blanket. Of course, I’m going to make it bigger than a baby blanket! It needs...
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