Looking Glass Knits

... loungin' in the sun. It has been ungodly hot in New York City, but not hot enough to keep me from plugging away at knitting venture...

The papers are all officially finished, graded, and taken care of! And I've dutifully started in on the reward yarn! (actually, to be t...

It's a beautiful, partly sunny Saturday morning, and I've been spending it working on some classics: Currant scones Button bands on...

Sweeeeeeet! The body of my fair isle yoke sweater is finished, and it is perfect! I decided it block it before knitting button bands, colla...

It's a little known fact that the natural spawning season for frogs of the superwash merino variety is mid-January. You may recall the o...

Here is what is on the docket for this weekend: Hali Meidhad and Seinte Margarete , a few Canterbury Tales, a meditation on the Passion by ...

Now that the top-down Arwen has been shipped off to its recipient, here's what's been cooking Chez Looking Glass in the last few wee...

I've been in Florida for the last week on vacation, finding it very hard to squeeze in any knitting with the gloriously hot weather. Als...

Nothin'. Arwen's body is one pattern repeat from completion, and I am not frogging back three inches. Hopefully nobody will be star...

After weeks of knitting on my Arwen, I realized that it was just too big. So this: became this: Ensuring a proper fit seemed to necessitate...

That gauge swatching with ruthless honesty is really important. That wet blocking is miraculous enough to stretch a sweater from size 33...

So I have made the discovery that a cuff 3/4 the width of the hand is ridiculously small. Back to the drawing board...

So a little backstory: the whole mitten-knitting thing began during Christmas break when I decided to make Selbu mittens from Folk Mittens ...