Now you know.

It’s so pink, you don’t even know.

Just tried to take a picture of the scarf I’m knitting with a skein of hand-painted alpaca I picked up at Knit’s inventory sale, but the batteries are kaput.

That’s ok. It just means there will be more to show when I get some new batteries.

Blurrrggh.

Over and out.

because my masochistic streak must be good for something

Last night I finished the first 6 rows:So far, that’s just over two “I love you”s.

For a size reference, here is the needle sitting on the chart I’m using (one standard letter-sized paper):

binary love notes

This scarf by heycarrieann is really amazing and it got me wanting to knit in binary. I wondered what kind of information I might try encoding in yarn. I thought, “hey, I love Google and all that it has given me”… so I tried converting the Google homepage source code to binary. After seeing that [...]

up in smoke

This scarf is crocheted in about nine increasing rows, which make it cascade from your neck in a fluttery, feminine ruffle or spiral. I took it one step further and needle-felted wispy bits of wool roving to the outer edge to give the impression of rising smoke.

It and and four others are all crocheted using [...]

Wookie Scarf

Actually, I meant to write “wool scarf”, but my right hand (the one that doesn’t listen very well) decided to type a letter k. This is my first knitting project ever. It’s a gift for the ersatz dad, who has a special affinity for all things woolen.

I put this thing in a warm bath to [...]