Knitting for Ukraine… This is a brand-new project inspired by this picture of a lady in the Moscow subway: The accompanying text says, “Sometimes the act of resistance doesn’t have to be loud or bold, it just as to BE.” We are knitters (and a few crocheters) who are making hats and scarves in the…
HEAVY SOCKS knitted on the ADDI 22 This is my own pattern for making heavy (bed or house) socks using my Addi 22 from start to finish: heels, toes, ribs and all. This pattern makes socks that fit women’s US size 8 or EU size 39. It’s not possible to make them wider using the…
Asymmetric Scarf/Shawl from Vichy Here I am in Vichy, in early winter, staying inside as much as possible… and thankfully I brought some yarn and some 5.5mm circular needles! Vichy Asymmetric Shawl This shawl is very straightforward: there is a six-row set-up, then a four-row repeat. The shawl starts in one corner and you can…
Non-binary 2 Asymmetric Scarf/Shawl This is a shawl I designed and made for my niece, who is non-binary. I added a tassel to the ‘plain’ end, where I cast on the silver main color. Gauge is not all that important, so long as you make a fluid fabric. I used a circular 4.5mm…
Butterfly Shawl This is a triangle shawl with elongated front ‘wings’, named for the lovely acrylic yarn from Hobbii.com that inspired me to create a unbirthday present for a friend. Having finished it, of course I had to write out the pattern (which I made up as I went along, more or less). Butterfly Shawl…
Non-binary Asymmetric Scarf This is a shawl I made for my niece, who is non-binary (I think); it’s adapted from May I Borrow This, Please?, a free pattern on ravelry.com originally devised by Lorraine Waitman (2019). Gauge is not all that important, so long as you make a fluid fabric. I used 4.5mm needles and……
REVISED GLUTEN-FREE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES I’ve now made this recipe about a dozen times, but the cookies keep coming out thin and crunchy. So today I adjusted the proportions, and they turned out so much better! Still gluten-free, almost vegan with suitable substitutions, and oh, so delicious! Prep time is 20 minutes, cooking time is…
Michael’s Afghan 2021 This is an afghan knitted on the Sentro 48 circular knitting machine. There are nine tubes, sized to fit a 60” x 72” piece of magenta polar fleece that I picked up at the local Idea Store. The tubes are sewn together using mattress stitch, then tacked ‘stitch in the ditch’ to…
Gluten-free Chocolate Chip Cookies On a whim, I decided to make chocolate chip cookies — always a favorite. I’ve been tinkering with the Freezer Cookie recipe posted before on this blog – the orange-ginger variation is very popular – and today I decided to use some of the gluten-free techniques I have been learning around…
Vegan Chocolate Fudge Cake This fabulously fudgelike chocolate cake is adapted from Anna Jones for the UK Guardian; here is a link to the original article (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/09/anna-jones-chocolate-cake-recipes) This is such an easy cake to make: no creaming, no sifting. Be sure to use a tight-fitting cake tin as the batter is quite wet and will…