Ann Shayne's Blog, page 7
March 5, 2013
Quick Peek at Cutting a Steek
Dear Kay, Short on time but never short on coverage of every little step in this Donegal project. Our last episode ended with this situation: Top view of the neck opening, except that it's not really open because along...
March 4, 2013
Blizzard Conditions Challenge Photo Shoot of Finished Object
Dear Kay, I can't stand an unfinished story, and I crave a happy ending more than just about anything. I've been waiting for the right day to take a proof-of-completion photo of a finished object. Namely, I was waiting...
March 2, 2013
Why We Knit
Dear Ann, I finished my second Riddari Icelandic pullover the other day. Today the Riddari girls got together, and I took some iPhone pictures in bad winter 6 p.m. light. Maggie and Carrie. When you're 16, getting matching, classic handknit...
March 1, 2013
Where Is Kay?!
Dear everybody, I have been receiving the occasional email, Tweet, and Instagram from Kay in recent days, but something is definitely UP. She keeps using words like "office carpet" and "salad for lunch" and even the word cubicle NOT...
February 28, 2013
Things Done and Undone: Sleeve Update
Dear Kay, Oh for pity's SAKE I finished the second sleeve of this thing. The problem isn't that it's hard. The problem is that it's not portable. You have sit right there with the thing, with the chart and...
February 22, 2013
Piece of Cake
Dear Kay, I have 29 rows left to go on my Donegal sleeve. GROAN! Love, Ann PS In cheerfuller news, I wanted to show you my new sofa, which is the suburban matron's midlife crisis as expressed via upholstery....
February 21, 2013
A Knitting Reality Show: Survivor for the Rest of Us
Dear Kay, Well, here it is: the thing we have been waiting for, dreaming about, training for, all these years: a hardcore, high-stakes, full-on knitting reality show. The Fiber Factor. This is going to be great. It will be...
February 19, 2013
A Provisional Cast-On and a Memorable Send-Off
Dear Kay, Since last I wrote, I've been to Greenville, Alabama, and Charlottesville, Virginia. It was a week to gather with family and friends to remember Uncle Dan, my dad's only brother. Solemn and hilarious, heavy and light, dark...
February 18, 2013
Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle
Dear Ann, You are the Prophet of Block-it in America, and I am your devoted acolyte. Blocking is the way to true handknit salvation. It makes the nicest, most even garter stitch plump up and look even nicer and more...
February 15, 2013
Shabbat Shalom, Baby Girl
Dear Ann, So, yesterday I packed Carrie off to Israel with a bunch of other teenagers and a few brave and generous leadership-type souls. There she goes. They were rushing to get to Jerusalem by sundown for shabbat. Having never...
