The Comfort Zone

 
 Alpaca head warp/scarf was not an easy knit!  I love seed stitch, but at its best it is difficult and burdened with intricacy.  I am lulled into a meditative state by the “back-knit, forward-purl” action, to the point that I lose myself in the meditation and forget where I am.  I look at five or [...]

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You see all sorts of things when you sit on the patio and knit.  This little guy was undaunted by the pipe around the bird-feeder pole (applied to keep the squirrels away), and the space between the pipe and the feeder was no problem for the hungry raider.  Click on the photo and make it [...]

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 What do you do when you are too busy to knit?  I seem to go a little crazy—or at least that is the analysis of friends and family.  They say that my behavior changes according to how many hours I am able to knit daily.  During the tax season, when there seems to be a [...]

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I don’t know about others, but I knit!  Socks mostly.  Socks seem to be my bliss, and I can achieve a blissful state in the middle of the extreme chaos just by picking up my current sock knit.  Of course I have other projects going, as all knitters do, Flair sweater, alpaca head wrap, and [...]

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So cute, and so soft.  I bought the brown baby alpaca some time back, not knowing what I would do with it.  Last week I ran across this pattern for a scarf/head wrap here, and knew I had to have it, and ordered the turquoise alpaca for the edging.  I cast on as soon as [...]

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