cast-on-itis control

I’m being so good. I’m sticking to the Purl-Buck Sweater when really I want to cast on for the Red Light hat by Brooklyn Tweed. I might as well show you the pictures. I still have to pick four of the colors. I’m leaning towards 1,2, 5 and 6 which are Chestnut, Pesto, Aubergine and [...]

i knit this giant swatch

Someone I know finally knit the One Day One Skein Wonder hat and found a mistake. She helped fix up the numbers, but I have to see what I’m doing sometimes, so I knit myself another hat just to figure it out. I changed the cables and moved some of the decreases up and down, [...]

mitten mitten who has got the mitten

Raise your right hand if you became infatuated with Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Mitered Mittens (May in the Knitter’s Almanac) after seeing the pair made by Brooklyn Tweed. These will involve installing an after-thought thumb. Should be fun.
Why these mittens were a good idea.

They are gorgeous in Silk Garden.
Any excuse to knit Noro is a good excuse.
Everyone [...]