At the end of 2021, I embarked on a new project just to see if I could do it. I saw a free pattern for a pretty light shawl/stole on the Knitpicks website and since I had returned my birthday present to myself back at Costco, I had some money to burn. I decided to give it a try. The
This is probably my 6th attempt to create something this past weekend. I had a saxon cable shrug on the needles, but after a hiatus, whilst I completed the Pulmonaria Shawl for a friend, I had lost my place and I had also lost interest. So it was frogged into two large balls of bulky yarn. I also had
The year is finally coming to a close. This has been year 2 of the pandemic. In the earlier part of the year, I was still contact tracing and enjoying it, though cases had died down significantly and I was able to return to my home department in July. In January, we had a horrible windstorm, which knocked part of
My current project is a pair of socks. The pattern is from Knitpicks and the pattern name is Shorties Socks. My first attempt came out a little loose and not quite right. Of course, I also made them one at a time, instead of two at a time. And the bind off was too loose and flared. My second attempt