I heart squares.

My blanket is going very well. I’m very glad I used the included “coloring sheet” to plan out how the colors would work together. I had to go through a couple of drafts because my goal was not to have any of the four colors touching. Once I figured that out, I tucked in and [...]

Monkey love.

Since I started this blog to brag about my skills, I wanted to give you an update on Chuckles. We had the office baby shower for my coworker. Keep in mind that a lot of my coworkers saw me knitting in the lunchroom nearly every day, but had not seen the finished product. When she [...]

Tiny, tiny balls.

I have frogged all but one of my old blanket squares. And I have discovered something: it blows. Totally and thoroughly. See these hunks o’ yarn: Looks like a lot, huh? Grr. I mean, seriously: grrr. -dk

Million dollar blanket.

I need to go to the yarn store. Again. And buy more orange yarn. (And turquoise, cream and brown). Again. I love my blanket, but perhaps my choice of yarns was a little rash. When I’m finished (in 12 or so years), I’m going to hand it to my boys and say, “Happy graduation. You [...]

POF – pile o’ frog.

I’ve been avoiding something for awhile now: This big pile of froggin’ for me to do. What you see is the evidence of one of my many failed attempts to do something with orange yarn. SOMETHING. I found a pattern that called for knitting up equal squares and piecing them together. Except these are clearly [...]