Archive for the ‘Knitting’ Category

Moving Forward

I haven’t had a lot of time for knitting and stitching this month, but I’m finally moving forward on the shawl again.  Since restarting the border I knitted 17 rows before I discovered I had to go back 6 rows (not fun) but I’m back up to 22 rows into the pattern.  I’ll try to [...]

August 25, 2009   Posted in: Knitting, Life  One Comment

Spinning Wheels

Ever get the feeling that you’re just spinning your wheels?  The last two weeks have been like that for me.
The rewrite of our data analysis program at work that I thought would just take a week has had me going round in circles.  I think I finally know what I need to do to get [...]

August 6, 2009   Posted in: Knitting, Life  5 Comments

Knitting up a storm

Well those magic needles are doing their job, in just two weeks I’ve managed to finish the center of the shawl (and that is despite having to unknit and reknit over 30 rows).  I’m really quite proud of myself and now am psyching myself up to start the borders – I’m anticipating many mistakes to [...]

July 20, 2009   Posted in: Knitting  6 Comments

Shetland Lace

I’ve started a lace knitting project for a friend.  She is due to have a baby in November and we are having her baby shower in mid September.  So I’m knitting a blanket/shawl.  It’s a shetland lace project, one of the easier ones.  The lady who designed it said she knitted it in 4 weeks [...]

July 5, 2009   Posted in: Knitting  4 Comments

Gardening

The growing of my own veggies is going well.  Some of it is trial and error, but one of the plants that are going really well are the zucchinis (courgettes for some).

I’m having a stack of fun doing this gardeing thing.  I’ve overgrown my tomatoes so they are taking longer to appear and ripen but [...]

July 5, 2009   Posted in: Knitting, Life  5 Comments