Looking Glass Knits

I have a few patterns I'm going to be posting in the next few weeks; this is the first. They're all part of a new collection I'...

Or, as one commenter hopefully speculated, married. I've just gotten really busy, and also I lost my camera battery charger and was to...

I was so enamored of Knitty Gritty Thoughts' spiral cowl that I knit myself some matching mitts. I had exactly the same experience with...

Eating brussels sprouts. (Isn't this thing cool? I got it at the farmer's market today. Who knew that they grew like this? It's ...

As I posted yesterday, I have a sock completed. As I look at this little number, it seems a little short -- but I am banking on my mom'...

Things have been in a shameful state recently here chez Looking Glass. One semester ended, a new one began, and ALL kinds of work did not g...

I was looking forward to turning to projects for myself in January, now that Christmas knitting was all done. But unfortunately, grad school...

To those poor souls who actually follow this blog: sorry for the communication blackout there! I've become quite busy of late. Grad scho...

Just in time to be quite late for Christmas, I finished a gift for a friend: some lovely Endpaper Mitts in Koigu and Gems Opal. This patte...

Knitting has been abysmally minimal this month altogether, for a variety of reasons (mostly laziness and schoolwork). But I didn't want...

I've been a little knitting machine this week, trying to finish up two baby sweaters to bring to the silent auction for my choir. I may...

I am officially the author of a pattern -- Sew I Knit has knit her own pair of my Latvian mittens! Click here to see the picture of her be...

The pair is almost complete. Here's a progress shot to show what the pre-duplicate stitch mitten looks like. I think that the wrist pa...

Here's the pattern for my "Latvian" mitten: Requirements: size 4 double-pointed needles Karabella Aurora 8 (94 yards/skei...

The first of my Latvian-inspired mittens is finished! Here it is, pre-blocking, in a somewhat dimly-lit photo (stupid NYC drizzle three day...

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

... mitten, that is. Or at least one whose patterns are Latvian. I was inspired by the following sites: http://www.liis.lv/majtur/darbmac/...