News flash: Pepto Bismol overdose cured by heartburn and indigestion

Yesterday I lamented a lack of knitting on the home front.
Today, I made up for it with both knitting and dyeing. The former was relaxing, mindless and entirely satisfying, done on a pair of 2×2 rib socks with my forked heel using my own hand-dyed yarn. The latter? Well, let’s just say I needed a [...]

Dinner or socks?

Or, potentially, both, which is even better!
The pesto is colorful, and it’s in single-serving ice-cube format. How cute!

The knitting has come down to socks, socks, socks and more socks.
The socks are even more colorful! They’re very pretty and one of them is even the product of my own hand-dye.

I’m probably going to rip back [...]

It’s not chemistry, it’s magic

Dyeing day has come and gone, and the fact that I am sitting here typing means the extra ‘e’ in the main verb is a key part of the excitement.

This…

became this….

which looks like this now:

These walnuts…

became this natural dye…

and, with nothing but walnuty goodness and boiling water, brought these into the knitting world:

The company, both [...]

I’m drawing a blank….

There are good reasons for everything. This week, the lesson is in why I have a knitting machine.
Two ordinary skeins of sock yarn turned into art. Or at least potential art.
Chemgrrl is throwing a Fall To Dye For dyeing party for my fantastic knitting group (Blogless Norma and Huan-Hua are sadly not attending due to [...]

These socks are snarky and forked….

During the lull between writing the pattern for These Socks Are Forked and seeing the test-knit garments in their final glory, I worked on a basic 2×2 rib sock with the forked heel. Most of the knitting has been on Sunday Night Movie Night, which in my circle of friends is dedicated to the best [...]

These Socks Are Forked!

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This brand-new heel turn technique, the “forked heel,” will win over die-hard devotees of short-row and heel-flap techniques alike, thanks to the extra heel room and more anatomically correct shape.
To compliment the devilishly clever forked-heel technique, saucy [...]

Suspended Animation. Or at least Suspended knitting.

A sleeve is done. The Suspension Cardi has a completed sleeve! And, to be completely honest about the knitting, there is more than one sleeve. Perhaps a sleeve and a third. Ish.
I’m not entirely sure if that’s an indication of time actually dedicated to knitting, or just time not dedicated to other things. For my [...]

A Sock Is Born!

All those little hops on the landing….

Why is it that we only emphasize the very end of something? As evidenced by the photo at right, it’s really the process that’s the fun part. Look, socks!!!!! Of my very own cables-and-lace design!
Stuck landings in gymnastics are just about as important as stuck landings in real life. It’s usually what you do during [...]

These are a few of my favorite things….

The 2008 cycle of Olympic gymnastics has begun, and it started on a high note, both as a couch potato and as a spectator (the two activities having subtly different emphases).
In couch-potato terms, I finished one of my 2 big summer writing projects and printed out a draft of the other to read for sentences [...]