Category: Knitting
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Zoz Cowl Pattern
I had a hard time coming up with a name for this pattern. I thought about calling it Zzzs because the stitch pattern looks sort of Z shaped but I wasn’t really happy with the name. Sometimes I read numbers as letters and the other day when I looked down at the ball band to…
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Zzz’s
I finally got some knitting finished! I bought this yarn when I was home for Christmas to make a cowl. Last year we had a ridiculous winter and I was preparing myself for the worst. Oddly, it’s been rather nice. I knit myself a cowl anyways. It’s still handy when it’s windy out. It’s just…
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My Bad…
Gaahhhh!!! I was hoping to have some knitting to post about by now. This blog just feels so strange if I don’t have any knitting for like a month. I blame two books for my lack of knitting posts: Culprit #1: That would be The Knitter’s Book of Yarn. I have a smaller project that…
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Who’da thunk?
Inspiration is a funny thing. Who would of thought that thisPhoto Courtesy of Sally Jane Vintage would inspire this? I wanted to imitate the drama of a fur trimmed cardigan by using cables and garter stitch. I took some elements and ignored some others that wouldn’t translate well to a heavier knit. For example, I…
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Veronica
The last thing I knit in 2009 was knit with the same yarn as the first thing I knit in 2009. I ran out of yarn for a cuff on this sweater but I had knit my sister a hat in the same colorway last January and used the left overs to finish this sweater.…