Warty Bobbles

On The Needles

  • Labor Day Weekend

    Sort of summer, sort of almost autumn.  The weather here is gorgeous and predicted to be so for maybe 10 days or so.  Maybe longer.  So summer continues.  But it is September and feels all back-to-schoolish too!  Knitting-wise, I am… Continue reading

  • And the Winner Is…

    My deadlines games and daily progress goals never line up with reality very well, I confess.  I suppose I do not expect them to — it is mostly wishful thinking!  There was little chance of my completing the rigorous daily… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Summer Knitting Re-visited

    Yesterday we spent hours cleaning up the front and back yards – this was a family event, a gift to George for his birthday (next year, we are all pitching in on a gift card!).  Needless to say, I was… Continue reading

  • Eggplant!!

    So, I Iay in bed this morning thinking, hmm, what should I knit today? I decided to focus on some of my active projects that have been languishing a bit — those that have sat untouched in my knitting bags… Continue reading

  • A Summer Q’mitl

    It is dreary and rainy and cold today.  And I quite truly and genuinely wish I could wave a magic wand (or an enchanted knitting needle, perhaps?) over the pile of fabulous blue-ish and purple-y yarns on my desk and… Continue reading

  • The Turtle Sweater Is Back In Business

    Getting a project that is “resting” back to hibernating is a real effort for me.  It does not take long for a complex piece to go “cold” – not that I lose interest, but I kind of lose a sense… Continue reading

  • Blessed Garter Stitch

    Sometimes Garter Stitch is just the thing.  It is a fine stitch design-wise, of course,  but I am talking about it as a process.  When my life is especially full – with events, logistics, people, decisions, conversations, transitions, travel, meetings,… Continue reading