I made a new pair of warm pants from the sleeves of this old cardigan. Grandma Susie bought it in the 80’s and I inherited it when we were living with them in 2002. It’s been floating back and forth in my wardrobe, barley used, until it got slightly moth eaten and became never used. I patched up the holes with some embroidery and creative darning, and they fit perfectly! Now, what to do with the rest of the sweater?

Katy(posted 1 week ago)

Nålebinding is like the medeival handcraft. We’ve been to a couple of these viking/medeival festivals in Oslo lately, and many of the hats and socks are nålebinded (is that the correct conjugation of that verb?) I talked to one of the ladies who was nålebinding a little bit, and she said that it predates knitting. She said it is quite a bit slower than knitting, which I guess would explain why knitting got more popular. Judging from the samples I saw, it makes a hardy thick fabric similar to crochet. Nice and cozy!

Katy(posted on Jun 19, 2010 at 9:34 pm)

With the bit of Kauni left over from my long-lost sweater I knit this tam. Kauni’s longish color changes are perfect for entrelac, in my opinion. Though I did have to tweak it once or twice, taking out some extra so that squares sharing sides weren’t the same color. This is one of my favorite things I’ve ever knit!

Katy(posted on Jun 4, 2010 at 10:26 am)

That’s right, I’m a knitting MACHINE!

Katy(posted on May 16, 2010 at 8:26 am)

This is definitely my favorite project/finished object of the last little while. My other big wool cardigan was getting to be way too much, even for the tiny amount of Spring that was in the air in Oslo. I decided I needed a toned-down cardi and was loving the short-sleeved versions I’ve been seeing here and there. And along come Interweave Knits Spring 2010 with this lovely little gem. It was a relatively quick knit (in the life of a busy lady), with just enough detail to keep it interesting but not too much that I couldn’t watch a movie. And, the yarn was rescued from a not-perfect-for-it project and I think it suits this one very well, though the color takes away from the seaweediness of the original.

Katy(posted on Apr 29, 2010 at 10:16 pm)

Wendy said she made this cake for the baby shower. It’s adorable! Of course, it’s a pink fish and not a red fish, because to make frosting really red you have to use so much coloring that it tastes gross.

Katy(posted on Jun 26, 2008 at 7:47 am)

I was casting about for more nerdy knits and came across this pattern for a Soma Cube, which was conceived of “by the Danish writer Piet Hein in 1936 during a lecture on quantum physics by Werner Heisenberg.” (aka Mr. Uncertainty Principle). I knit my version for Johannes, and it was much fun at his birthday party. It was much passed-around and puzzled-over.

Katy(posted on Apr 4, 2010 at 7:55 am)

This was the first hat I attempted with the new yarn to match Apl’s new jacket. This took almost exactly half of the skein. I made a disk, basically, with short-rowed equilateral triangles and then gathered it with a twisted cord to make a ruffly little bonnet-type hat. It doesn’t stay on very well, though :(

Katy(posted on Apr 1, 2010 at 9:55 am)

Apl needed a new hat to go with her new coat and Sally and my mom helped me pick out the new yarn in Sacramento. I tried out and innovative design idea of my own, but her head was getting cold while I worked out the details, so I broke down and started knitting this from the other end of the ball. When both hats were done, there were about 5 yards left. Whew! It’s the good old Djevellelue. I’ve knit it before, but this was the first time that it ended up with the adorable little point at the top, I’ll definitely repeat that mistake again!

Katy(posted on Mar 26, 2010 at 5:43 pm)

Chris had a good idea for a mitten design, and proceeded to turn the whole notion of “mitten” on its head (literally!). We discussed the design at length and Chris decided on these important points: it is to be knit from the fingers down (so that the knit “arrows” point out to the fingertips), it should have a more subtle pattern than traditional Norwegian knits while still being two colors, the right hand has a separate index finger, and the index and thumb on the right hand are tipless. These last features makes this the perfect mittens for operating a camera in cold weather.

Katy(posted on Mar 1, 2010 at 10:12 pm)