Iris' Knit n Things

In the knitting community, I am contemplating getting a group together to meet up and have coffee, and knit or crochet. It would be a great way to make friends and share ideas. I’ll throw the idea on the neighborhood’s website, and see if anyone is interested. Meanwhile, I’ve started another WIP, that I’ve started years ago.. it’s an Icelandic style piece from knit picks.  https://www.knitpicks.com/lofoten-pullover/p/41203D .  Another one of those projects on the “ Work in progress” basket. It feels great to get the numbers down. Garden time is here! I’ve decided this year I will start a vegetable garden. Considering the prices of food, I might as well think wisely about saving money. I’ll try to plant mostly vegetables I enjoy, and are easier to freeze. You know tomatoes and peppers will be on top of the list. I had chickens, but it was difficult to travel as often. A veggie garden you can set a timer to water. My sprinkler system reaches the garden, so that’s also handy. Chi...

 I started the sweater in the fall of 2006, when the air was crisp and the pages of Vogue Knitting felt like possibility in my hand. The yarn was soft, the color just right—something I imagined wearing on a day that hadn’t happened yet. Back then, I believed projects always got finished. But life has a way of setting things down for me. The sweater had many lives before becoming whole. It moved from basket to box, from one home to another. It waited through busy seasons, through ordinary years, through moments when knitting felt like a luxury instead of comfort. I would find it sometimes, needle still sticking in the stitches, as if holding its breath. I’d promise, “soon”, tuck it away again. Twenty years is a long time to carry something unfinished. In 2024 my mother passed. I had taken care of her—sat beside her, tended to her, loved her through the slow, tender unraveling of time. When she was gone, the world shifted in a way I wasn’t prepared for, like a dropped stitch racing b...

 Here’s GogoDynomo ! I have her blocking.  She turned out lovely.  I love how she makes me look like an Aztec warrior when I wear her!

 I am stuck home due to snow and icy roads. So I crochet some slippers. I really love how warm and cozy these feel. On my next try, I think I use a harder, more supportive sole. Right now, these feel more like socks. This is my first winter in retirement, and I am so happy I do not have to be out in that cold.  For now, I’ll complete the other slipper and probably make a couple more as gifts. I also will prepare for an interview I have tomorrow, for a volunteer at a Hospice service.  It’s for an administrator. I figured something to do a couple of days a week.  For now I’ll wait and see what six more weeks of winter feels like with my new slippers!