Blue Harvest Finished

I finished Blue Harvest in time to wear them on a cold foggy day and they are satisfyingly toasty warm.  Now I have a matching set of hat (Esme), scarf (Tudora) and mittens in the same yarn and all in Aran style; I think this is my first ever set to own.  Now if it [...]

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Tangled up in blue cables.

I was all set to post about starting Yellow Harvest Mittens (Ravelry link) from Vogue Knitting Fall 2008 while watching the presidential inauguration, and then the week got away from me, and now we have on hand, literally, one finished mitten. I’m using my stashed Manos del Uruguay in Cornflower, so I decided to [...]

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Cornflower Tudora Epilogue

No sooner had I finished Tudora than I realized I didn’t quite like how it looked (perfectionism!), so I ripped out the seed stitch buttonhole band and got more creative.  According to the pattern, after knitting the bulk of Tudora, you add the buttonhole band just as you would for a cardigan by picking up [...]

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Cornflower Tudora

My first finished object of the new year is Tudora.

I like Tudora’s design because it provides good neck coverage and doesn’t have long, scarf ends getting in the way when bending over.  Bending over may not seem like a big deal, but when you’re in a public bathroom helping your young child do what he [...]

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Welcoming a new year!

Written by Lydia

Today’s post opens with my latest finished object, Veste Croisée, which I finished knitting on December 31, but hadn’t been able to post about until now because my son and I celebrated the changing of the year with a good dose of stomach flu.  After days of laundry and sprinkling baking soda on [...]

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