Inch by inch, day by day

I checked my blog on a PC recently. On Explorer. And apparently it's all kinds of messed-up. So I'm sorry about that since most of you probably are on a PC and using explorer. I will be working on that, but my HTML skills are a little rusty so it may take a while.

Anyway, as the yarn diet marches on I picked-up this little addition to my library in the hope that it will enhance my stash busting.


Now, I know. It's like I'm going over to the dark side. But I swear some of these patterns are so cute! No to mention I've never really liked knitted purses. I'm hoping I'll like crochet more. Hopefully, sometime soon I'll have some crochet to share. I've always liked the way Debbie Stoller explains things so maybe I'll be able to figure this out. If not I have a couple friends who actually know how to crochet very well so I'll be hitting them up for the inevitable "the hook goes where?" questions.

In other news I've cast on for my April Project Spectrum project.


I'm using my miss-chosen SWTC Bamboo in Tequila. Here's a shot of the swatch. I know you're riveted.


I'm going for a very basic stash busting top. I should be able to hammer it out by the end of the month, but of course I said that about my unfinished Hearten and Phildar sweaters a month ago. When I didn't have a job, and two more days of class. So, we'll see.

Onto the new Knitty. Is it just me and my far to corporate/homogenized world that I think the way Cookie A. displays her designs is creepy? I really don't dig the disembodied mannequin leg. It icks me out so much I have a hard time focusing on her designs which is unfortunate since she has some really great ones. There are only a couple other patterns I think I'd maybe knit Tendrils and T-twist. To be honest I'm not even sure about those. I don't know. I just wasn't taken with any of them. But then Clapotis is the only knitty pattern I've used in the two years I've been checking the mag out. Fortunately, its not like Vogue Knitting and I don't have to pay for it.