Warty Bobbles

Anna-Lisa Kanick

  • Posting My Progress

    So, I have actually been charting my progress on the To-Be-Done-Before-The-Beach projects over the past 3 days and here are the results (presented in brutally scientific actual-really-and-truly numbers in chart form!). Tam (10 rounds per day/30 for 3 days)  Day… Continue reading

  • Strategy For Progress

    Well, I have been soooo busy knitting that I have not had time to blog at all this past week.   Ha, ha, ha!  Not really.  Been too busy with summer to knit (much) or blog (at all).  Camping over… Continue reading

  • Deadline: The Beach

    I love deadlines.  They energize me and fill me with purpose.  They render me so productive that I will pile as many languishing projects as I can get my hands on onto an upcoming deadline – and then knit my… Continue reading

  • Planet Family

    I have snuck off to my computer for a quick post. I am lucky to find my computer un-occupied and even luckier that no one caught me en route and lured me into, say, a game of badminton or a… Continue reading

  • Moved To Sort

    When I am moved to sort my yarn-and-such, I had best do it – immediately!  The mood does not come upon me often.  So, yesterday, I sorted.   I confess that I was spurred by the general housecleaning necessitated by… Continue reading

  • A Lot Of Life

    We continue to have a lot of Life going on in our family.  The kinds of things people deal with all the time — a new baby on the way, a wedding to plan, elderly parents with health issues, a… Continue reading

  • EZ’s Green Sweater

    I have my yarn and am knitting away on the EZ Green Sweater (mine is not green, but variegated blue, but what's in a name…?). "Codex"  (color: Spiel im Morgengrauen) from The Sanguine Gryphon 52% silk/48% Blue-faced Leicester wool The… Continue reading

  • Three Sweaters

    There is the sweater I am knitting:  The Otter Rock Sweater.  I have been chugging away at it like the Little Engine That Could.  Bound and determined to get it done.  Hey, I had over half the front done and… Continue reading

  • Milanese Lace

    I have been having a heck of a time with the Milanese Lace in my Butterfly Q’mitl.  Ridiculously so – really, I knit lace from charts all the time and I should not be messing it up this much!  Mostly,… Continue reading

  • Harder Than It Looks

    Knitting is harder than it looks. Harder than most people think it is. I remember this when I am teaching a new knitter – when she is surprised that knitting doesn’t come naturally, when she expects perfection and is impatient… Continue reading