Yes, you read correctly… times 8. For any non-knitters, the term “rip” or “frogging” is used whenever you unravel something you’ve knitted. It’s often called “frogging” because you ‘rip-it, rip-it’… and if you pull quickly enough, the stitches coming apart make little pop-pop-pop sounds like ribbits.

My personal ball-winder hard at work!

Shield the little-one’s eyes — my naked hot water bottle!

And attempt number 8 (At least I think its number 8… I kind of lost count). It seems like every time I get to this point, I find something wrong and have to frog it.

Question For The Knitters: Regarding Cables

Do you ever have this little ‘gap’ when you cross the cable over? It’s not a proper hole, but it’s a gap where the furthest stitch left stretches to it’s new position, and the middle stitch coming over doesn’t have anything holding it in the previous row.

Do visuals help?

Doesn’t this dinner look gorgeous? I made Oven-Roasted Vegetables and pies for dinner tonight. Before I left home, I borrowed all of my mom’s cookbooks & clips that I liked and photocopied all the recipes I wanted to make my own “Kitchen Clips” book. I made sure to mark all the notes into mine as well. Read the rest of this entry »