casey knits

And you’d also be dead wrong. 

Somehow, I’m still just as obsessed with shawls as I was a year ago.  After some hedging between a simple shawl in a striking yarn, or a complicated shawl in a plain yarn, the fancy yarn won and I cast on a Revontuli, using the Zauberball that’s been taunting [...]

I wanted a piece of handknit lace for a photography project, but didn’t have time before tomorrow’s lab-time to knit even a swatch, so I blocked the “point” of my current shawl in progress.
Before: bath scrunchy
After: leaf lace!

It’s amazing what water and a few pins will do.
As for the shawl, the pattern I’m using is [...]

Oh hi!  I have a blog?  Actually, I remembered that I had a blog… what I didn’t realize is how quickly time flies, even if you aren’t having fun.  The new semester has begun - 2 weeks in already, if you can believe it, because I sure can’t - and all I can say at [...]

So hey!  Merry Christmas!  I have so much to say that I don’t even know where to start!  Well, ok… kind of a lie… this IS a knitting blog, after all, so I’m going to start with the long-promised pictures of things I made for gifts this year.  This isn’t everything;  2 gifts still haven’t [...]

I have to confess that, for many, many years, I didn’t fully understand the yarn-snobbery against acrylic.   I mean, yeah… it’s plastic… it doesn’t feel as nice as wool, definitely nowhere near something like silk, or even other synthetics like rayon.  But it still has its uses, you know?  It’s cheap, it’s tough, most people [...]