Night Clouds Socks (2013)

  Pattern:  Usual Hybrid Sock Pattern Yarns:  Lana Grossa Meilenweit Solo Tono Method:  Hand knitting Completed:  June 29, 2013. These are my standard socks — toe up, following Wendy’s Toe-Up pattern, and Cat Bordhi’s Riverbed Arch expansion/plain heel.   2.25mm needles. 

Fruit Crackup Socks (2013)

  Pattern:  Usual Hybrid Sock Pattern Yarns:  Patons Stretch Socks Method:  Hand knitting Completed:  April 24, 2013. These are my standard socks — toe up, following Wendy’s Toe-Up pattern, and Cat Bordhi’s Riverbed Arch expansion/plain heel.   I did a chevron

Maritime Morning Sweater (2013)

  Pattern: My own design Yarns:  Green Mountain Spinnery “Mountain Mohair” Method:  Hand knitting Completed:  February 10, 2013. I bought the yarn at the Green Mountain Spinnery in 2005.  My design notes (from “Design a Knit”) are dated 2006.    I

Blue Fields Socks (2013)

  Pattern:  Usual Hybrid Sock Pattern Yarns:  Claudia Handpaints “Blue Fields” Method:  Hand knitting Completed:  February 1, 2013. These are my standard socks — toe up, following Wendy’s Toe-Up pattern, and Cat Bordhi’s Riverbed Arch expansion/plain heel.   I did a

Hedgehog Mittens (2012)

  Pattern:  Morehouse Farms Hedgehog Mittens Yarns:  Green Mountain Spinnery “Alpaca Elegance”, 1 1/2 skeins Method:  Hand knitting Completed:  December 18, 2012. A delightful pattern from Morehouse Farms.  Once I saw the picture, I could not not knit these for

Underwater Basketweaving Socks (2012)

    Pattern:  Usual Hybrid Sock Pattern Yarns:  Lang Jawoll Magic (About 3/4 of one 100g ball, though I didn’t measure it) Method:  Hand knitting Completed:  November 23, 2012. These are my standard socks — toe up, following Wendy’s Toe-Up

Pink Twill Tablerunner (2012)

  Pattern:  Point twill variant from top of page 131 of Deb Chandler’s “Learning to weave”, with plainweave borders and ends. Yarns:  FibraNatura flax linen (chocolate brown) for the warp — 4 skeins used between the sampler and the actual

Forest Floor Socks (2012)

  Pattern:  Usual Hybrid Sock Pattern Yarns:  Lang Jawoll Magic (most of one 100g ball, though there was a comfortable amount left over) Method:  Hand knitting Completed:  October 15, 2012. These are my standard socks — toe up, following Wendy’s

Blue Crochet Tablesettings (2012)

  Pattern:  Coats & Clark “Celtic Placemat” pattern. Yarns:  Cottolin 22/2, light blue, virtually all of a 1650yd tube Method:  Crochet Completed:  October 12, 2012 A year-long travel project:  got 4 placemats and 1 centre runner from one tube of

Not Too Fussy Sweater (2012)

  Pattern:  Wondrous Woven Cables, from Knitter’s, Fall 2000 Yarns:  Plymouth Yarn Mushishi — 3.5 skeins (1,600 – 1,700 yds) Method:  Hand knitting Completed:  July 19, 2012. A new sweater was required — others are all wearing out!  The request