In early spring, Michael told me that he’d lost the hat I made him some years ago, and one of his Fleeps as well. (For new readers, these are flip-top mittens. It’s just more fun to call them fleeps.) But he had another hat, so that was all right, and it was getting to be too warm for gloves anyway. Earlier this month we...
At Thanksgiving, the annual family reunion, one of my cousins mentioned the rainbow pillow I knit last summer. “Can you make me two of those?” he asked. I tried to explain that just the one had taken me nearly two months of crafting time. “I’ll PAY you,” he said. I asked if I could maybe sew pillows for him instead. “What’s the difference?” he...
To bring 2016 to a creative finish, I knit this quick floppy hat for a friend. She ordered the yarn and had it sent to me, and I knit it up in a few days. It’s amazing how fast knitting goes when one doesn’t have to spend eight hours in a cubicle away from the project, isn’t it? The yarn is Cascade 220 in...
The pattern for Sheep Etu suggests first pinning the stuffed feet to the body of the sheep to get the right balance before sewing them on. I didn’t bother doing that, since Wee Sheepie is going to ride in the car and won’t need to stand up on its own – and I saved myself the effort, as none of the feet ended up...
Michael had mentioned that his Fleeps were starting to get thin in places again, and after Thanksgiving I took them home with me for their third repair job… which was really just a sneaky excuse to take some measurements and observations so I could knit him new ones. I worked from my notes from his first gloves, combined with the constructive feedback that he’d...
I had the bright idea to crochet a snowflake as a Christmas gift for Michael’s mom, who is a crocheter herself and appreciates these things. So I pulled out the #10 thread and a wee steel hook, and set to work on the Savannah Snowflake, which is a free pattern available on the Snowcatcher website. It was not an easy project. The thread was...
My next door neighbours, Morry and Shirley, are quite probably the best neighbours anyone could ask for. We trade off cat-sitting services (although I feel as if I ask them to feed Floyd and Kipling more frequently than they ask me to look after their cats) and occasionally trade baked goods. When I asked them to take care of Floyd and Kipling over Christmas,...
My friend Teresa, Ship’s Cook of HCPS Tygershark, loves black and silver. I’ve only ever seen her wear black and silver – maybe a little bit of white, sometimes, when silver can’t be found. About a year and a half ago, she mentioned something about armwarmers, and I filed the thought away in my head with a note that I had to find black...
Michael requested a hat of a very specific shape and size, so it would settle over his ears and flop down just so, and over the course of last week I knit it for him. It’s made of Cascade 220 Quatro in two shades of grey, and is exactly what he wanted – or it will be, after it’s washed and softened up so...
Last weekend, to kick off the Tour de Fleece, Michael and I stopped at the Mannings on our way from Connecticut to Virginia. (If I’d known it was actually only about 90 minutes from home, I would have gone there sooner!) We looked at the wheels and the looms and the gorgeous weaving projects in progress… …and then the yarn. I didn’t want to...
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