I made Elizabeth Zimmerman’s famous baby sweater, the February Baby Sweater that is, while I was waiting for Frank to show up.
I had started it at some point, appropriately, in February. Frank was due in mid-March, and although I’d been planning a sweater, some sweater for a while, I only got finished with the knitting […]
My favorite month. Although the wind has not with frosty fingers punished my hair, as yet. Due to September having been far cooler here in the mid-Atlantic.
There was a period where you couldn’t walk here without stepping on volumes of Heidegger, but I finally finished that huge paper, with some help from Robert Frost. If […]
The shawl–vexed from the beginning? Someone was just wearing one in my George Eliot book, on their way to an unlucky assignation. Also a red one got left symbolically in the mud in Frances H. Burnett the other day. The ‘village lass’ look decidedly needs work. Village chicks are easily fooled, and are often no […]
But first, what I made for myself, because it’s the nicest to look at:
A sort of cowl, knit from Goddess Yarn’s ‘Hayden’ yarn, a present from my cousin due to eponymous husband. It turns out that music teachers have far more sympathy for knitting in class than philosophy professors. Perhaps this is ultimately unsurprising. The […]
Does anyone remember Noel’s scarf?
Well, it’s famous now. A lot of people want to make it, too. And HB’s sweater, and Jenny’s cozy. Crazy. But cool. Fame is heady.
I used to think that Jenny, Beth, and I were probably the only people with our sort of taste, but know I know better. The world […]
Perhaps you’ve heard how difficult it is to make one’s man a sweater. Well, it’s the truth. They have strong but nebulous likes and hatreds, and an underlying sense that their intuitions on this score are unified, despite the contradictory examples they give. Really, asking them to describe clothes pushes most of them into a […]
The pope-given holiday this past week allowed me time to cut out a dress for Croquet. Surely planning what to make for a particular event is the most pleasant sort of clothing-planning of all. The specificity of an event’s place and time, its magnitude, what Jenny will be wearing–all this makes for miles of […]
Because her lovely sweater won a Knitting Daily Readers’ Choice Award!
It is called the Cable-Down Raglan, and was originally published in IK Spring 2007, but now it is Free, along with the other four winners, in an e-book available till May 14th. Thank you, Knitting Daily!
Stefanie is a knitting designer of great fame, and a […]
I ran down to Eastern Market before Aquinas class this morning, to buy the appropriate crochet hook to finish my Lotus. A nice chat with sensible women at the store provided good contrast to clever Thomistic arguments I heard and made later that afternoon.
Back home, I persuaded Sister to take my picture.
It actually looks nice […]
But first, a new possession.
Capezio leather T-strap character shoes. I finally threw out my first pair, bought in 1997 for theater camp in Boston, which lasted me through the trials and tribulations of The Waltz Committee in college. But the insoles were crackling into pieces, the heels worn down, and the arches broken (though some […]