Cowls. They’re everywhere, right? Here’s a cowl of mine I’d like to share: The Bethesda Cowl. The pattern incorporates elements of lace and cabling and is very simple. I’m not sure if anyone has designed anything like this before, so forgive me if it’s been done! Skip…

“Furry” Christmas everyone! I don’t even know what to say except that I guess it was a matter of time before I started designing and knitting for the cat. I’ve always wanted to knit us matching hats but I think this is eccentric enough. I used doubled Dale of Norway Baby Ull…

Hey I knit some booties for the future baby of my colleague, Annie. Annie is the Joan Holloway of the office I work at and, like Joan Holloway, she is going to have a baby next season. Annie was my chosen recipient in our office Secret Santa, where the constraints were four gifts at $5 each. I got…

Let me tell you all about this tiny bear I crocheted. First, look how small it is compared to USB. Second, I think I found my purpose in life, and it’s crocheting tiny bears. We don’t need more evidence that I’m the saddest, loneliest young woman alive - I’m writing this on a Saturday…

My new hat. Have you seen my hat? Basically, I was in H&M and I saw a hat that I liked. I tried it on and I liked it even more. It was only $6! But I had near-identical yarn in my stash (at the time they were selling a yellow version for fall), and it was simple enough to recreate, so I did. I…

Hello to all! I crocheted a tiny-ass Boba Fett as a gift. I don’t know who Boba Fett is, but everyone keeps telling me he’s a pretty cool bad guy! The only Star Wars movie I’ve ever seen was The Phantom Menace. My dad dragged my ass to it when it came out and I fell asleep in a…

Hi! It’s January. My close friend Samantha had emailed me recently asking for my interpretation of some directions in a pattern for socks. The socks were so cute I had to knit them! Samantha has great taste. I knit them over New Years when I was sick. In the past 10 years I have spent 60% of…

Hello! I knit a shawl for my good friend and pen pal Jodi! This shawl was actually knit twice. I used two skeins of Malabrigo from two different dye lots and because of the way the yarn is dyed, you can expect a big difference in dye lots and there was! So knitting one skein and switching to the…

Hello! It’s been a long time since I knit anything because I spent most of 2010 sewing handbags or not doing anything creative at all! These are some booties for a fetus. It’s about to turn into a baby any day now. It’s the first baby item I’ve ever knit and it went by…

THIS is the Print O the Wave Stole by Eunny Jang. I’ve been meaning to knit this in Malabrigo Lace since 2006. In fact, I did knit it in the late spring of 2007, (in the Marine colorway of Malabrigo Lace) but after I grafted the two center panels together, it was too tight and it ripped. When…

Hello! this hat is the Odessa hat, but knit as a slouchy beret. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it knit as a slouchy hat, but I’ve also never looked. This is the hat I recognize the most in Portland, albeit without the beads, which I can’t understand. The beads are the best…

This is not a hat for me. This is a hat for a dear friend. I cast on an extra repeat and worked in size 5 and 7 needles instead of the 4 and 6 that the pattern specified because I didn’t want it to be too snug. I knit the larger size (5 pattern repeats) as well. I love the modern, unisex…

Lorna’s Laces yarns makes a beautiful lofty fabric but I find this palette to be unattractive. This is a problem that generally plagues all variegated sock yarns. First, I don’t understand why any variegated sock yarn would have skinny one or two row bands of colors before switching to…

I hold grudges and I don’t believe in second chances. At the end of 2006 my brother wanted a red hat with a pom pom so I knit him one and he lost it before it even became like 2007. He also acted like it was his right to lose it and kept asking for another one for years even though his…

Here’s a hat for a family friend. Ricky is the eldest son of one of my dad’s longtime friends and if I ever met him, it hasn’t been in the past 10 years. Three years ago I knit my brother a red hat with a pom pom (he lost it immediately) and thus it followed that Ricky wanted a…

Not much to say about these socks. I wanted to knit socks but I don’t wear knit socks because my feet overheat easily. Initially I started with the Hat Heel Pattern from Knitty and while I love how the heel looks like a little target with self-striping yarn, I thought that the gussets were an…

I wanted to create something ugly. There was this inhibiting perfectionism in my system and I felt the only way to let go was to make a most hideous accessory and be proud of it. It looks like a bad tye dye hat made entirely of bobbles. The yarn is a homespun thick-and-thin but mostly roving…

These are Endpaper Mittens based off of Eunny Jang’s Endpaper Mitts, which I knit before in the summer of 2007 and loved them. In March 2008 I lost one and it was terrible. Converting to mittens was easy; I knit two more pattern repeats for the fingers and decreased by four stitches every…

Ladies and gentlemen, I have TWO HORRIBLE STORIES regarding this Queen Anne’s Lace shawl. The first one began sometime last winter when I began knitting it. In April, I moved into a new apartment and in transit, it came off the needles. It could not be salvaged or negotiated, and it had to be…

My favorite coworker collects squid figurines in his cubicle. I crocheted him this in pink, my second favorite color. I would have loved to have had some crochet cotton on hand because the yarn is extremely fuzzy and un-crochet-like, but Portland was experiencing the SNOWSTORM OF THE CENTURY and…

My mom wanted a rainbow scarf, which is the perfect occasion to buy some Noro. The sad part about knitting this is that my ball winder absolutely hated Silk Garden and I lost several yards off of all four skeins. The cool thing about knitting this is that 1x1 ribbing can be used if you want a…

HELLO. I hope everyone is well. I’ve been doing a lot of knitting, but it’s all been fairly uninspired so I’ve been knitting and ripping and re-knitting and, I mean basically it’s been about the process lately. I’ve been stuck in preproduction, something I…

Hi how is everyone? I’m really good! Recently, Catskill Merino Sheep Farm featured my first Urchin beret on their blog. It was a total honor, and the yarn was given the name Mystery, inspired by the nickname I’d given it in my blog. So that was totally cool! Anyway I’d like to…

This appeared out of nowhere in the middle of September: it’s a Branching Out in Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud, and it also happens to be the first thing I ever knit, we’re talking February 2006 here. It’s feather-light and it looks alright. At the end of September I moved from NYC to…

OMG this pattern. I love it. Unfortunately I had maybe half the yardage I would have needed to complete this shawl, and even going down three needle sizes still wasn’t enough; I had to truncate 35 rows early! This has been my first circular shawl and it was great. Each row is different, and I…

Ladies and gentlemen I redid the Urchin! It reminded me too much of my slouchy Foliage and I didn’t want it to become too much of like a thing like, “Oh Chloe knit another slouchy hat (because she has gauge issues).” I just followed the pattern for the Medium size, no edits, no…

This scarf is the marriage of two different yarns. It’s Knitpicks Essential in Cocoa, left over from Brian’s Diamond Waffle socks, paired with double stranded Knitpicks Gossamer. I bought this yarn in early 2006 for my mom’s Clapotis which she never ever wore. It’s a…

Blog, I knit another hat - why? Because it’s August!! I knit this while listening to one of the two knitting podcasts I subscribe to. Most people listen to only zero knitting podcasts, whereas I am marooned on the tail end of a bell curve, and with TWO knitting podcasts. I’ve been…

Hi I knit something. Knitting has been very emotionally difficult for me since Bears on Swings. When I learned to knit at the end of 2005 it was during a time of my life that was unproductive and knitting was an exercise in being inspired and making things. Right now it’s impossible for me to…

Hi it’s been awhile. My head’s felt like a FEMA trailer lately and I haven’t been inspired. Since this is a craft blog and not a Chloe blog, thankfully I don’t feel obligated to talk about it further. When Cirilia posted pictures of her new scarf on her flickr I knew I…

Bears on Swings is a celebration of the springtime depicted through nature’s most notorious hibernators: bears. The work is comprised of approximately thirty hand-knit stuffed bears suspended by swings from the trees which line the academic mall. “Bears on Swings” is a public art…

Finally. These are Brown Socks for my husband Brian. Brian is not my real husband, but we were lab partners once and people (Lauren) told us we were like Lucy and Ricky. Brian saw me knittng my toe-up Jaywalkers during many of the thousands of credits we were taking together this past fall. I…

I started these in another yarn during Cloverfield, ripped and reknit while watching There Will Be Blood, and sewed everything up while watching O Brother Where Art Thou. They’re for a friend and they’ve got a button detail on the wrists. Down. Up. Button button.

Hi! These are socks for my roommate’s boyfriend, Zach. According to Ruchi (roommate), Zach has sweaty feet, so either the wool content will absorb the sweat or make him sweat more, and then absorb it. My initial problem with socks wasn’t so much heel flap or turning it, it was picking…

Hello! This is the Banana Republic Hat for my friend Chantal’s birthday. Chantal looks gorgeous in green. As I was knitting it I felt like I had fiberglass filaments in my eyes and nose. I’m not allergic to anything so I don’t know what’s up with that. I would hate for this…

So, in the most traumatic knitting experience of my life, in May I dilligently knit the two center panels of Eunny Jang’s Print O’ The Wave Stole in Malabrigo lace. Malabrigo, by the way, is NOT VERY ELASTIC (foreshadowing!). It didn’t have a single mistake. In July, I grafted…

Hi you guys how is everybody. I’m feeling much better thank you. This entry has a lot of parentheses (I have a lot of interjections.) My first finished object of the year is (ugh, yes) a Clapotis. This is not my first or second Clapotis, but it’s my first clapotis scarf. I feel like…

Hi I’m sick how are you? I knit Shedir and heavens, what a frustrating knit. I’m glad it’s over. It was done over three days of sickness in time to give to my brother’s girlfriend who is coming for the New Year. FIRST it was stressful because of the ribbing and I hate…

Hi blog! Today I am going to present scarves for the holidays but not the people wearing them. I knit the first scarf over Thanksgiving, a holiday gift for my roommate and best friend, Ruchi. I used the Multidirectional Scarf Pattern and Noro’s Kujaku, which I knew she would totally love…

The pattern for this hat was easy; modifying it to get the perfect fit took effort. I saw this pattern in the fall Knitty but it didn’t register until I saw Cirilia’s version and I was blown away by the hotness. In the first trial I knit it flat on size 11s because 11 straights were the…

Hello I feel fine thank you. I am presenting toe-up Jaywalkers, which were fun to knit. I bought one 400-yd skein of yarn which I approximately wound in half and then used one of the balances in my chemistry laboratory to get it exactly 50/50. CHEMISTRY IS COOL. I have narrow feet so I made the…

Check me out! Since I last posted the screen snapped off my laptop and the very next day I got a brand new Macbook Pro (savings are nice!). So now I’ve got one of them cameras on my display so I can take photos of my face!! In my sculpture class a boy had one of them hats with earflaps and…

HI HOW IS EVERYBODY? When this knit blog was on LiveJournal I had eighty people who read it. Now that I host my own blog zero people have read it in the past three days. SAD. AND THEN in the middle of me updating this post, my computer fell and now it’s being HELD TOGETHER WITH THE GLUE THAT…

I built some gloves for the winter recently. I consider them “free” gloves because all the yarn that I used was yarn that I purchased and used for other projects. The body of the glove is comprised of the green Dale of Norway Baby Ull that I used for my Endpaper Mitts. I had a ton of it…

BEFORE I CONTINUE! Today at the salon where I was getting my hair cut they played THE FINAL COUNTDOWN! I smirked!! I started Eunny Jang’s Endpaper Mitts the second I finished the Poms and regretted my color choice immediately. AS AN ARTIST I know implicitly why a palette offends me but that…

Hi how is everyone? I was just in Boston for a week. It was there that I finished the second of “the Poms.” It took me six weeks to get through the first sock because I had a lot of problems. I screwed up majorly in two places. I liked to knit these in public because they looked so…

Seriously, you don’t even want to know. I bought this yarn in spring 2006, started the Jaywalkers like a million times, ripped them completely a million times, started again in February 2007, ripped them completely, started again somewhere in April 2007, ACTUALLY GOT PAST THE HEEL FLAP, and…

This is my second Kiri, knit in “Gold” Kidsilk Haze for my mom’s wedding. (She did not wear it at her wedding.) The shawl points are missing because I did the wrong bind off, but where the points should have been, there are clear glass beads. I also didn’t do the edging…

This is the Kiri Shawl! I only screwed up one leaf and it was my first major lace project. I weighed down the shawl points with pink beads and gifted this shawl to my friend Ruchi. Every woman must have a lace shawl I knit another in Kid Silk Haze for my mother for her wedding. She did not wear it…

This is Grumperina’s Odessa Hat. I knit it in the same color as the one she displayed it in, because I lack creativity hardcore. The only reason I didn’t use the same color beads is because the store didn’t have them. I knit another one for my Grandmother in like a wine color with…