Posted in spinning, tagged making yarn, spinning on April 28, 2008 | 16 Comments »
It’s baby’s first handspun. Well, first handspun AND first attempt at plying. I got the key things done this morning and was sitting around waiting for a few computer things to start working (not my computer, stuff on the university end), and was contemplating miscellaneous fibre-related things and thought to myself, “stop saying you’re going [...]
Posted in knitting tourism, stash on April 27, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I made my first trip to the Toronto (Downtown Knit collective) Knitter’s Frolic yesterday, with Martha (wearing her finished Icarus! Go go laceweight!), Steph, and Diana (not of the blogs). There was some yarn buying. There was a bit of frenzy. And there may have been some singing along to Michael Buble while in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged magknits on April 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve had several hits lately on my blog with search strings like ‘Magknits patterns’ or ‘Magknits shutting down’, as well as more comments asking about how to find [X Magknits pattern], so I thought I would post this all in one go. I don’t know how many people read information left in comments. Here are [...]
Posted in book review, tagged book review on April 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’ve had this book in my possession for a few weeks now and I have not been able to stop looking at it. I’ve showed it around to my local knitting friends here in Hamilton, and took it with me to New York as well at the beginning of the month. Everyone I know who [...]
Posted in cables, disaster, fearless knitting, knitting gone wrong, sweaters on April 21, 2008 | 29 Comments »
Last week when I was in Boston I took with me a plain sock knitting project (stockinette, navy, men’s socks - for my grandfather), but I also brought some yarn and a new pattern to start as a treat. Since I was tired and vaguely stressed for a little while (what with almost losing my [...]
Posted in knitting tourism, socks, yarn stores on April 19, 2008 | 17 Comments »
1. Would someone with knowledge of how to locate former Magknits patterns outside of Ravelry be so kind as to leave some suggestions in a comment? I would be ever so grateful. I’ve had a couple of comments asking how to find [X Magknits pattern] and I’m still away from home this week and without [...]
Posted in finished object: socks, tagged design, finished object: socks, free pattern, socks on April 13, 2008 | 17 Comments »
First up: I have formatted ‘Basic Black’ as a pdf, and it is now available on Ravelry (for those who are registered on the site), as well as right here:
Basic Black
But in the present-day knits category, I’m thrilled to have my first pair of finished socks in over a month. When I made a pair [...]
Posted in book review, tagged book review on April 10, 2008 | 15 Comments »
It’s going to be a bit of a book review season around here for the next month, as I work through the 4 copies that I’ve currently got my hands on for blog reviews. The one I’m going to look at this week has indeed been out for publication for more than 5 months already [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2008 | 29 Comments »
I found out this afternoon via a Ravelry user that Magknits is no more - the patterns are all gone. The real question now is how to access the patterns now that the online Magknits archive has been taken down.
I received a question about my ‘Basic Black pattern, and thankfully I have my own computer [...]
Posted in knitting in public, knitting tourism on April 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I am working on some book review notes (somehow I have managed to get backed up and have 4 to do -eek! book reviews ahoy in April), so rest assured this week’s blog content will be filled with more than just New York City things…but I couldn’t resist just one more with some pictures from [...]
