To many knitters Elizabeth Zimmermann is our greatest Knitting Godmother—akin to, I submit, a knitting goddess, who gave to us discernible knitting lessons, decipherable patterns, and the license to knit as we please. My EZ collection was made complete this morning…

Relatives are having a baby and I hand-knitted them an heirloom blanket. Featuring earth tones and soft cotton mixed with a touch of wool — come see more pictures of the finished blanket.

Between our two families, The Partner and I experience three days of Christ(less)mas: an evening with just my parents, the eve with (nearly) the rest of my family, and the morning/afternoon/evening with his family.
The Partner and I decided at the last minute to eschew buying our loved ones more shit they don’t need, so we [...]

I am a quarter of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation away from finishing the second square of the baby blanket:

It is going to be so soft! I’ll have to see, but these squares have only used up one skein of yarn each. This is good, since I’ll have plenty left [...]

The Partner contracted some sort of head cold from work and brought it home especially for me! In between blowing my nose and hacking up phlegm, I’m currently attempting my third go at the second square of the blanket I’m knitting:

The first time I repeated a row I shouldn’t have and was not too [...]