Photo.Knit.Dog

And so it begins

lina — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:53:10 +0000

Lots of new beginnings in Photo.Knit.Dog land today. For one, the beginnings of a blanket:

This is Umaro by one of my all-time favorite designers, Jared Flood. I am making it for a friend of a friend. It’s someone I’ve never met but who is undergoing chemotherapy soon and my friend wanted to give [...]

Perseverance is key…

lina — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:42:53 +0000

I can’t believe that I’m making this post… but after 3 years, 7 months and 28 days (give or take a few days) of sitting around in a project bag, lonely and abandoned, the first Diamond Gansey Sock finally met his match!

In the end I didn’t completely hate my first pair of toe-up [...]

Languishing WIP

lina — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:46:24 +0000

Starting the New Year strong with my knitting resolutions, I cast on the second of my Diamond Gansey socks which I first knit back in May of 2009. Yes, you read that right… almost FOUR years ago.

It’s a very pretty sock, but I had issues with it. It was my first (and last [...]

Happy 2013!

lina — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 06:12:36 +0000

Happy New Year to this dead blog and to all who are still around to view it! Starting fresh and hoping to keep up with things this go round. Yes, it’s true there is no reason for anyone to believe I will keep up with it now, but today that’s what I’m planning on doing [...]

Knitting and Teething

lina — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 05:47:48 +0000

Although I haven’t been knitting as much as I would like to be (I’m lucky if I get 15 minutes to knit a day), I am picking up the needles more often than not and am slowly (and I do mean SLOWLY) but surely making my way through a Color Affection shawl.

So [...]

Happy Father’s Day!

lina — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:00:03 +0000

Happy Father’s Day to all dads out there! Father’s Day is becoming more special for me, of course, now that my husband is a new dad and an amazing one at that. He really goes above and beyond taking care of her even when he’s incredibly busy and tired and I honestly couldn’t ask for [...]

Jumping back into the fray

lina — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 05:09:27 +0000

So I’ve been gone a long while. I won’t even bother to apologize or hope that readers are still around because after 6 months of silence I’m sure not very many are, if any. So in a way I’m starting over with this blog, and that’s okay. I’m not upset about this as I know [...]

Hello? Is anyone still out there?

lina — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:07:31 +0000

Holy crap, I can’t believe it’s been over TWO months since I’ve posted here! In my defense, I have been extremely busy the past two months with a bit of a project that will take me around 40 weeks to complete:

Yup, there’s a baby growing in there and we are so excited about [...]

Year of Socks – Sock 7 and a Remembrance

lina — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:47:07 +0000

And now for some knitting content… as it turns out I have been knitting over the past couple of months… all socks. I have just recently (as in last week) started working on other things but socks have been the focus of my knitting these summer months because, sadly, I never feel like knitting [...]

Tropical Storm Irene

lina — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:20:51 +0000

Yup, we got downgraded. The big hurricane we were all expecting didn’t hit us and most New Yorkers are having the “that’s it?” feeling after the storm passed. I don’t. As much as we prepared and bought water and food to last through a power outage – and then didn’t even have anything happen [...]