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 […]
projects
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 […]
WYSIWYG Blanket
Let’s start by saying: this was supposed to be an ordinary granny square. Just one great big granny, worked from the middle outward. I had half-skeins of blue and white, remnants of other projects, so I planned to do blue and white stripes surrounded by a third color. (Originally the third color was going to […]
5 Quick & Easy Hats
Over the last few months I’ve been sharing the patterns for the hats I’ve made as Christmas gifts for family members, but I thought it might be nice to round them all up into one post so you can see them side by side. I designed them with a lot of similarities. They’re all made […]
Beginners Brioche Hat, Adapted
Cross my heart, I started my Easy Color Block Brioche Scarf with the intention of donating it to charity when I was done. I wasn’t as enamored with brioche as so many people—it was never on my knitting bucket list. In truth, I learned because of my readers. I put out a survey in July […]
Peace on Earth Hat
Is it acceptable to admit that this hat was frustrating? It was honestly one of my favorites to knit. I love the stitch pattern–it’s waffle-ish and so easy, and it’s based off of a blanket I saw on Ravelry. But trying to get decent pictures was just about impossible. I’m still not happy with them, […]