Green Apples

1. Finally FO pics! - I was finally able to take modeled photos of Petersburg - at 7 am, so they are a little dark. A few random notes after wearing it several times:  I have given up on the belt holes - I don’t like how using them makes the sweater stand out from my waist.  I would make [...]
2. New Twist and Interweave! - I totally admit that I’m a terrible pattern collector.  I will buy any book or magazine that I think I might want to make something out of someday (you know, just in case.)  Nothing makes me happier that a month with lots of new patterns!  I’ve already shown you Amber and the new Knotions (not [...]
3. On giving up… - Does anyone else find it hard to admit that a project is just not working out for some reason?  I’m trying really hard to get better, but I must confess that I feel guilty when I lay something down for good.  So what I said Sunday, about how I was going to make it through [...]
4. Stir Crazy - My Silken Scabbard is separated under the sleeves now, and I have merged the cables to the sides.  It feels like progress is glacial… I don’t like the way the pattern is written at all, and to be honest I might have given it up, except my husband, who rarely notices sweaters, loved it when [...]
5. One sock… - I don’t generally suffer from second sock syndrome.  If I can make it through the first one, I must like the pattern enough to finish.  Right now I am suffering from a bit of “second mitten syndrome,” but that’s because knitting fair isle with my right hand is kind of painful for me, so I’m [...]
6. Little Pumpkins - Thanks to everyone who has participated in my stash sale so far - there is still some yarn left, so check it out if you haven’t! Late Saturday night I cast on for my first pair of socks this winter. The pattern is “Little Pumpkins,” and the yarn is Wollmeise 80/20 in Kurbis. First, comments on the pattern.  [...]
7. Big ole stash sale - am one who likes to regularly purge posessions, but since we moved I have been unable.  So I have been saving up yarn to sell, thus the super long list! All yarn is from a non smoking home.  I do have cats, so I can’t totally guarantee a lack of hair… I do my best, but [...]
8. Sock Yarn Report - First of all, watch here for a stash sale soon… I have lots of yarn I’ve decided I’m not going to use up, and very soon it will go up for sale here!  Now onto today’s post… Socks and I have a complex relationship.  I’ve never been one to enjoy wearing socks, but handknit socks are, [...]
9. Double FO: One Row Scarf & Calorimetry - Pattern: One Row Scarf by the Yarn Harlot Yarn:Malabrigo Merino in Paris Nights, 1.3 skeins Needles: US 8 Notes: Rarely do I repeat a pattern - I have far too much in my queue to feel the need for any repeats!  This is the second scarf I have made from this pattern, and it is officially my favorite.  [...]
10. FO: Petersburg (sort of) - Pattern: Petersburg from Rowan 42 by Sarah Hatton Yarn: Elann Highland Chunky, 9 balls Needles: US 10.5 and US 9 Notes: I’m not sure when modeled shots will happen, so I’m going to go ahead with the FO post, but I promise modeled shots as soon as I can! I made an exciting discovery with this sweater.  I can’t [...]

Mason-Dixon Knitting

1. That Runcible Woman - Dear Ann, Oh, that runcible woman, that Mrs. Lear! How heedlessly she tosses out blithe and beautiful ideas. Ideas that come to her every minute of every day, and that bump me out of orbit faster than you can...
2. Twist and Shout - Dear Ann, Hey, guess what! The winter edition of Twist Collective is up! It's so beautiful I can hardly believe it. The Problem Ladies are in it, blabbing away to the trusting souls who sent us questions in the good-faith...
3. Mason-Dixon Knitting Rule Number Whatever: Keep Driving - Dear Ann, Kiki and Mariko, My Kiki Mariko rug is done! Although I cast on more stitches (total of 154) with the intention of getting a more square-ish shape, I ended up so besotted with the color changes that...
4. Skirting the Issue - Dear Kay, Well, I know you never thought it would happen, that I'd lose my mojo and veer off into spinning or animal husbandry, but I'm here to tell you: I finished the skirt for this Margaret sweater. I...
5. It's Like Bronx Beat, sort of - Dear everyone who still reads our blog, and I hope that includes you, Kay, Quick note that we're going to be on Martha Stewart Radio Monday morning, 8 am eastern time, on XM Sirius satellite radio channel 112. We'll be...
6. The Old Tyme Fiber Arts Festival of the Upper West Side - Dear Ann, There is no other way to say this except to just come right out with it: I've ditched knitting for rug hooking and quilting. Right now, right this very minute, I am having a very serious and...
7. Finding the Right Words - Dear Kay, On Tuesday night, as I worked on this Margaret sweater, I thought about my sister-in-law Mary Neal, who designed this sweater for our book. She was texting me from Grant Park in Chicago, telling us about the...
8. Pardon Me (I'm Sure Your Wig Is Here Somewhere) - Dear Ann, Gee thanks. I couldn't sleep last night because of that creepy baby-faced kid. As a public service, I'll see your Baby, and raise you one: Vampire Baby. (I agree, she's not nearly as scary as Creepy Baby....
9. I Left My Hair in New York City - Dear Kay, Somewhere between New York and Nashville is our hair. I don't really know why it isn't in the Suitcase of Luv--that's where I saw it last--but it really put the cramp on my Halloween efforts this year....
10. Two-Timing, and an Exhortation - Dear Wind Beneath My Wings, Ferocious knitting mojo down here right now--I don't know what has come over me, but really, I've been knitting like . . . well, like you. Give me five minutes sitting still--waiting for the...