http://kalliopelane.com/blog Knitting, vegan food, reading, writing, longing, living. Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:45:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Look at this luscious Manos scarf: Isn't it so gorgeous you want to eat it? No? Well then, it's just me. It's My So Called Scarf , obviously. You can also see my new Knitpicks Options needles. I got the set! I had started this scarf with my ... http://kalliopelane.com/blog/?p=90 Heels will be the death of me. So when I started this new pair of Badcaul socks, I went down a needle size because my first pair were a bit loose on size 2's. I've been very happy with the snug fit this time around and was happily proceeding to ... http://kalliopelane.com/blog/?p=89 This picture doesn't show it well, but the socks I'm making my mother for Christmas are looking camo-colored. (click for larger pic) What had seemed a very feminine, delicate colorway in the skein is seeming very brown/grey/green camoflauged in the sock. Ah well. They're still pretty, just not in ... http://kalliopelane.com/blog/?p=88 I never mentioned it here, but I had a knitting tragedy back in March or April. I had finished my first Badcaul sock (see the beginnings here) and was working on the second while on a plane traveling to Seattle. In order to compare the foot length and ... http://kalliopelane.com/blog/?p=87 I finally made the fabulous Fauxstess Cupcakes from Vegan with a Vengeance! Since I love reading the kitchen chronicles of others, I took lots of pictures so I could write this up in proper fashion. It seems I need to always cook my cupcakes a little longer than Isa's recipes ... http://kalliopelane.com/blog/?p=86 Here is my pretty little Badcaul sock toe: More cable detail: For what it's worth, I think the color is more accurate in this one: I'm going a bit crazy reading about short row techniques.  I just ripped back to do the heel over again to see if I can completely avoid holes.  ... http://kalliopelane.com/blog/?p=85 I've been out of town for a few days. We were visiting Bloomington because Tom was offered a position there and we were checking it out to see if we liked the town. And we did. I never thought I'd be so charmed by a small college ... http://kalliopelane.com/blog/?p=84 So I didn't get my Jaywalkers done in time for the knitalong -- ah well. I came to it late. But I'm trying to hurry it up, because I bought myself lots of goodies that I want to knit with: Koigu for socks in a deep magenta ... http://kalliopelane.com/blog/?p=83 I've been using an online tool for the past several months that is a fantastic handy thing: PBwiki.com It's a free online wiki that you have set as private or public. What's a wiki? It's kind of like creating your own web of links, your own little website, that ... http://kalliopelane.com/blog/?p=81 It's unfortunate, this new obsession I have with knitting socks. I have a long list of patterns I want to knit, and a longer list of sock yarn I want to try. And I'm enamoured with the magic loop. So why does this suck? It's because I ... http://kalliopelane.com/blog/?p=80