Seascape

Ok, so I started this project as part of a War and Peace knitalong. I joined a group on ravelry that is reading War and Peace and knitting something to go along with it. Everyone was trying to theme the project with the book, so they picked Russian or similarly-styled projects or something [...]

Scotland

When I am lonely and bored, which happens sort of often at work in the summer, I really miss Scotland. I visited there last year when my roommate was studying abroad at St. Andrews. Her boyfriend and his brother and I all flew to Edinburgh and met her at the end of her term [...]

Which comes first?

I often have the chicken and the egg conversation with myself concerning knitting. I can never decide which is the better way to go about buying yarn, finding yarn I like then fitting it to a project, or finding a project I like and then looking for yarn. I think about it a [...]

The kind of knitter I am

Last night, I was bored and decided that I wanted to start a pair of socks.  So I went to the store about twenty minutes before they closed, in a rainstorm, just to get the needles that I needed.  While I was there, hurriedly trying to find the needles I needed, I realized that that [...]

Getting into it…

The knits:
I’ve been working on wild stripes; for awhile now. I started it when my boss was pregnant with her daughter who is now seven months old. I wanted it to be a “hey, way to be born!” present, but I missed that deadline. Now I’m hoping that it will be a good one-year [...]

Beginnings . . .

Well, I broke down and decided to start blogging about my knitting. This is what a boring summer in Ann Arbor with little to do besides knit and read will do to a person. I suppose I’ll make this a short introduction. I’m a student at the University of Michigan (for one [...]