Eloquent Pedestrian

I haven't posted here in a long time because I have been far too busy knitting. Which you'd think would be a good thing for a knitting blog, but blogs don't work if you don't write in them. I thought about doing a big post about Christmas time, but instead I'm going to give it to you in pieces. The first gift of yarn-mas was from my friend Kat, who bought me the stitchmarkers from  Nerd Girl Yarns  which I had hinted she should get me. And by hinted I mean that she asked me "What would you like for Christmas?" while we were online one night. And I responded "These" with a link to the stitch markers. I may have pictures of the beautiful Tenth Doctor stitch markers at some point, but they will be in any of my in progress pictures to see here. The second gift of yarn-mas was from me to myself. It was the first installment in the same Nerd Girl Yarn's Who's Your Doctor? yarn club. I pay a certain amount and every month I get an exclusive ...

The Christmas presents are done! More on what I got another time. Here is my final present, and probably my greatest knitting achievement. They are the Shell Patterned Gloves by Robin Travenick made out of Caron Simply Soft Light for my mother who is allergic to wool. This meant I got to use one of my favorite yarns, and actually at the right size, as opposed to the Lotus Mitten experiment. They are warm, despite the lace on the back of the hand, and there are very few issues, all of them on my part. I would say it was a pleasure to knit, but that wouldn't be entirely true. I hate to rib for very long, I get bored, but it's not mindless enough to be background knitting. The shell pattern itself was great by the middle of the second glove, when I had it memorized, and lace patterns always whip along. The challenge was the fingers. I'm amazed they came out as well as they did, considering what a novice I am with so much of their technique. I am very happy with the e...