‘Round about March of last year, I took some photos of a sweater in progress and posted them here. A sweater that had originally been intended as a Valentine’s Day present, but that promptly hibernated through some serious life changes for us, as well as the tail end of my last couple of years of [...]

Yesterday, The Sainted Husband (TM) and I put in an offer to purchase our first home together. (We’ve rented for the 9 years we’ve been together)
Today, the sellers accepted our offer.
Holy CRAP, we’re buying a house!!!!
Und now iz ze time on schprockets ven ve FREAK OUT! But in a good way.

This is what happens when the twain shall meet:

I took far too long knitting this sweater for a wee dude born a couple months ago — so long that I was beginning to be afraid it would be too small for him by the time I cast off, if I didn’t get a flippin’ move-on, [...]

A Post! AND a finished object! Is it the Apocalypse?!?
Living in the D.C. metropolitan vicinity made it feel pretty imperative to us to attend the Inauguration on the 20th. In the interests of being as prepared as we could be, I decided that Sophie needed to have a warm wool hat. In typical me/knitter fashion, [...]

You know how it goes. The mojo waxes, wanes, waxes again; you’re knitting along but it’s mostly just shapeless blob, nothing to speak of that you can capture in a photograph. Or you finally finish something after months of inactivity, only to find the object whisked away by the recipient to be worn with glee, [...]

Holy cow, y’all. Seriously. What a month this has been. First of all, I show you the important stuff.
Finished Object(s)!
Nutkin socks for The Sainted Husband.

I knit these two at the same time on magic loop with Addi lace needles in an effort to avoid second sock syndrome.

This was one of those yarns that called out [...]