Knittinggarden

How many times have I used that title?  I guess if I posted more regularly, I wouldn't have to catch up, but that doesn't seem all that likely.  Anyway, since this blog is supposed to exist to document my knitting, here's what's been happening. The spinalong fiber has been spun and mostly knitted.  I'm making the Boneyard shawl by Stephen West out of it and it is not the most interesting knitting, so is taking awhile.  I got about 650 yards of yarn, so the shawl will be a good size.  The colors shown on the yarn skeins are more true to life than those in the shawl photo.  While this is not a combination of colors I would ordinarily choose for myself, I'm enjoying the progression of shades in the finished project. My Pogona (also a Stephen West design) is about the same size as it was when I last showed it.  However, it has had some work done on it, just not all in the right direction.  I decided I didn't like the striping I was getting w...

These are double-pointed needles.  They are size US 2-1/2 (3 mm). They are pretty small, pretty sharp, and pretty slippery.  I only have a couple of small sets of dpns, purchased a long time ago.  Back in the day when I learned to make socks, I first learned from a book and that book said you had to use dpns, so I bought some and used them.  I didn't like them very much. Shortly thereafter I took a class on how to make socks with two circular needles and I liked that much better.  The needles didn't poke me, they didn't fall out, they weren't as awkward to hold, and I didn't get the little ladders between the needles.   Once I started with the circulars, I didn't look back and learned to easily convert any pattern written for dpns to circulars.  This included finishing hats and doing mittens.  I may have even said on occasion that I didn't use dpns and didn't know why anyone else would.  That's me; never judgmental or anything! However...

Thank you, Princess.  I will enjoy this delicious arrangement and appreciate it very much!