Productivity

All things considered this has been a productive few days. I’m making progress on the zombie, from which I am taking a break to blog. And there have been FOs and progress on WIPs. And I got my library card, New Brunswick has a fully integrated province wide library system… what a fantastic [...]

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Football Season Means FOs

I’m back (again) from an eventful trip to the greater Boston area (does that work for you guys? Sufficiently not Boston, but still helpful to those who don’t have a clue where Marlborough or Hudson are?) While there (and traveling there and back again) I finished reading an amazing book, Shock Troops by [...]

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Flyby FO

Specs: Blue Beret
Pattern: Meret
Designer: Wooly Wormhead
Size: L, slightly more slouchy
Yarn: Paton’s Decor
Colour: Country Blue
Yardage: 3/4 of a ball
Needles: 3.75mm circ

Cast On: Dec. 04.08
Bound Off: Dec. 07.08
Notes: Was blocked using a dinner plate. I would probably use all wool and go up a needle size if I do the pattern again. The pattern itself was great, [...]

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On the fourth day of December

I had just cast off a pair of socks, and was casting on a hat.
Specs: L’s Blue Jay Socks
Pattern: Thelonious
Designer: Cookie A
Size: Large

Yarn: Knit Pick’s Kettle Dyed Essentials
Yardage: nearly 2 balls
Needles: 2mm dpns

Cast On: Nov. 24. 08
Bound Off: Dec. 3. 08
Notes: My biggest problem was remembering that they were mirror images (as in I had [...]

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