Posts By: Mit
November 23, 2016
Design: Pepperberry Cowl
It seems I’ve been a bit lax in showing off my self-published designs. So while the Indie GAL sale is going on, I thought I’d go back through my included designs. The Pepperberry Cowl is the first pattern I self-published on Ravelry. It’s a fingering weight cowl that uses three colours, but you could use anything from two to as many colours as you want. I happened to have a need for using Madelinetosh 80/10/10 Fingering in Astrid Grey,…
Posted in Craft, Designs, IndieGAL, Knitting | By Mit
November 22, 2016
Indie Designer GAL 2016
The Indie designer Gift-a-long starts today and I’m finally able to participate as a designer. I really wanted to last year, but I was a design short of qualifying. What is this? This is a six week celebration of independent knitting and crochet designers. It involves a GAL 25% sale from all participating designers from tonight, 22nd November 2016 8pm US EST to 30th November 11.59pm US EST with the code ‘giftalong2016’. You need to use the code to…
Posted in Craft, Designs, IndieGAL, Knitting, PhD | By Mit
November 21, 2016
So, I’ve been absent…oops?
I’ve been quite a bit absent from here for quite a while. It wasn’t intended, really. I meant to post, I was just neck deep in Ph.D and then in Ph.D recovery once it was done. Which really has involved sleeping, a lot, knitting and reading. And more sleeping. I’m finally back to writing up some of the knitting patterns I’ve been collecting. See, while I’ve been busy with my Ph.D I have still been designing, I just haven’t…
Posted in Craft, Designs, Knitting, Life, PhD, Photography | By Mit
April 16, 2015
Things I did last year: Christmas crafts
A tradition from my childhood, and one I love to keep up, is to make gifts. Sometimes this involves making food such as jam (jelly if you’re in the USA), mustard, relish and often sweet treats, to give as hampers. It also involves making other stuff. Sometimes I start months in advance. One year I make 13 (check) Christmas stockings for the family. All colourwork. And I started in August so I could get them all done. Each one was…
Posted in Craft, Giftmas | By Mit
March 9, 2015
A year on
It’s been a year, well over a year, since I last blogged. I didn’t forget about my blog, rather I was in my final Ph.D year and it was more a matter of needing to keep going with it and get it done. My Ph.D has been handed in for examination, and there is now nothing I can do until it’s been examined and I hear back, which won’t be for several months yet. In the meantime I’ve been recovering…
February 3, 2014
Photos, Editing, editing and more editing. Ugh. Also knitting
Do you like the new photo of leaves at the top of the front page? I do. I took it a few weeks ago of a lipstick maple with a macro lens. I don’t do this often enough and I love how it came out. All I did to the image was to crop it. No filter, no tampering of any sort. My favourite kind of photography. I’m back into uni work/editing mode and I’m editing two different books at…
Posted in Knitting, Life, PhD, Photography, Uncategorized | By Mit
January 21, 2014
Knitting plans 2014
While I’m procrastinating about editing I thought you would all love to know what I’m going to knit this year. Of course you want to know. (BTW, I am actually editing, it’s just very tedious and really boring and the only thing keeping me sane is my cat and a cold milo). I want to get a few cardigans knitted for winter before winter so I can actually wear them. I would love to knit Wyeth in bright orange, Thyone…
Posted in Knitting, Life | By Mit
January 20, 2014
Knitting Stats 2013
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but got sidetracked with knitting, reading and doing nothing while I have had the chance. But that’s over and I have to get back to PhD work, even though I’d really love to take another week off. I can’t. My PhD is due this year and that means getting back into editing, so I’m catching up with stuff. Including this blog, which I’ve sadly neglected over the last year while I’ve…
October 25, 2013
Release Day! Bloodwood Cowl
Okay, so I’ve been MIA for a while and my apologies. I’ve been caught up with my Ph.D but I have fantastic news that I’ve been sitting on for a while, and now I can finally tell you. I’ve had a design published! It’s my first publication and I am ridiculously excited by this. Thank you SweetGeorgia for publishing me! World meet Bloodwood Cowl: The Bloodwood Cowl is a two skein fingering weight reversible and unisex cowl featuring…
Posted in Designs, Knitting | By Mit
July 18, 2013
Thursday
It’s thursday afternoon and I’ve given up trying to get much of anything done as my shoulder has decided to start aching and it’s making typing annoying as I keep having to stop and start, resting it so it doesn’t get worse. I know why it’s doing it, but it’s annoying. I want to finish shredding this dissertation. Anyway, it’s thursday, first blog of the week (whoops) and I really don’t have much to tell you. I’ve been shredding this…
Posted in Life, PhD, Uncategorized | By Mit