I do not have kids. I do not want kids. But I have friends who have kids. So I knit for them. I like knitting baby things because they are small so they usually knit up faster and take up less yarn. Plus, I like knitting plush toys and it is hard to justify knitting them for myself.
A friend had a baby, and I decided to take a stab at knitting booties. I had a pattern for “1-Hour Baby Booties” and, still being a …

I adore my father-in-law but… well… he’s a geek, in every sense of the word. He knows he is a geek; he embraces it.
One of his geeky indulgences is Dr. Who, a British sci-fi show that has been going on, in several incarnations, for about as long as I have been alive. One of the good doctor’s trademarks is his obscenely long, wide, 1970s-inspired scarves. So when I first took up knitting, my husband immediately found a Dr. Who scarf pattern for me to make. He …

I was never really a hat-wearer, especially beanies. But when I found this one, I decided I had to become one! This was knit by yours truly, from this pattern on Knitty.com. The knitting itself was quite easy - I finished it in one day. It was everything else that I seemed to have problems with.
First, it was choosing the yarn. I wanted brown instead of the grey recommended in the pattern. And I had to have the right amount of marled color. …