My newest nephew was born in November, so of course this summer I dropped everything to make a blanket for him. I wanted it to be simple and warm and—always my most important factor—machine washable. I used Loops and Threads Impeccable, one of my favorite basic worsted weight acrylic yarns, because it’s soft, easy care, […]
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Santa Beanie
It’s a short-running tradition in our house (by which I mean this is my third-ish year doing it) of my boys getting hand-knit hats for Christmas. Sometimes I try to get opinions from the boys, and sometimes I just make them the hat I think they’ll like best and keep it a surprise. This year […]
Audiophile Bag
Do you love books? Do you love your local library? Do you love to listen to audiobooks when you’re doing chores around the house? In case you haven’t guessed, my answer to all three questions is a resounding YES!! I live right in between two libraries, and both are amazing. They also have great digital […]
Charity Block #11: Slipped Rib
I found this stitch pattern in a book I got for Christmas: 750 Knitting Stitches. I decided to try it out because I have two baby blankets to make this year, and it looked like a simple, cute, and cozy stitch pattern to use for one of them. (I ended up going a different way […]
Basic Grocery Bag
I didn’t bring any knitting supplies when I went to Ireland. I was afraid the needles would be confiscated by the TSA (this was only 2006), and I naively assumed that in a country so full of sheep, yarn shops would be easy to find. Not so. I went through withdrawal by my third day […]
Charity Block #10: Mosaic
I love colorwork, but it’s really hard to knit with small children. I get about three stitches in before one of them sits on me and whatever I’m knitting. (I had to knit my brioche projects after they were in bed.) Enter mosaic knitting, which is a fun and easy method of colorwork and my […]
Eva Lynn Hat
If you could only knit with one yarn weight for the rest of your life, what would you choose? I love variety (fortunately that was a rhetorical question), but I always come back to worsted weight. Even after making my Eva Hat in Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino, my favorite yarn to work with so far, […]
Eva Hat
This hat was a long time coming. I’ve had the Eva Scarf for over ten years, my favorite scarf for spring and fall. I’ve been wanting a matching hat for ages, but the math to get the lace pattern to work out across the right number of stitches was too intimidating. But it was worth […]
Winter Headband
I have not gotten on the messy bun beanie bandwagon, in part because I mostly put my hat on just to take the dog out. I just throw my hat on over my ponytail, go outside, then come back in and take it off. But sometimes that just doesn’t work for me. So I decided […]
Silly Old Bear Hat
Munchkin loves Winnie the Pooh. This is convenient, because I had two skeins of yellow yarn leftover from a scrapped Bob the Builder “hard hat” that I gave up on making for Little Bear last year. (He got a monster hat instead.) Both boys needed new winter hats this year, and it’s become a tradition […]
