I joined yet another knit-along (because a girl can’t have too many lace stoles, you know, I do wear them everywhere…well, OK, not really, but they’re fun to knit) and wound up spending an unbelievable amount of time trying to find just the right yarn for it. This is from No Two Snowflake’s Etsy shop. [...]
Do you remember the autumn-colored merino I bought at the Hemlock fiber festival? Well, first I turned it into this: And then, I knit it into this: This is the Peace Shawl, and it was almost the perfect size for the amount of yarn I had spun. I had to work 6 fewer rows before [...]
…world’s smallest knitter! We’ve been hosting the World’s Biggest Sock Attempt at our shop for the past week, and this morning I sat Carrie on my lap and helped her knit a few stitches on it. She actually really got the hang of how the needles moved, she just had some trouble with wrapping the [...]
So we’ve all been sick, all week, and when Carrie woke up at 3:30 AM Saturday with a 102° fever we decided to call off today’s party. I can’t say I wasn’t just a tiny bit relieved, since being sick all week I’ve done nothing around the house. However, I have done something with my [...]
I always go to festivals with a dollar amount firmly fixed in my mind that I will not go over. And then, of course, there’s one or two things I can’t leave without and that number goes *way* out the window. (Luckily, I know this, so I set my dollar amount much lower than it [...]
Let’s see… We drove to Denis’ parents’ place on Thursday. First long car trip with a potty-trained toddler = the longest car trip ever. But we arrived with a dry kid and a dry car, so we did good. Of course, we also arrived with a sleeping kid who promptly woke up and wouldn’t go [...]
Carrie and I are going to Rhinebeck this Sunday, and I really want to have her cabled jacket done. I have all but half of one sleeve knit and then just assembly and the collar. I could manage all that in the car, right?
Knitting Daily had a poll about the number of UFOs we each had. I had to try to do a physical count, and I came up with 18. That counts everything from things I know I’ll never finish to socks without mates. Don’t ask me about sewing, quilting, spinning or anything else. That was just [...]
This year for the fiber festival, I didn’t just buy stuff – although I did do plenty of that! – I also sold stuff. That was a really wild experience! On Saturday our booth was packed full of knitters. The line was never less than six people deep, even with three of us writing up [...]
So, with a shop full of yarn at my disposal, how long did you think it would take me to start something new? Or, maybe, several somethings? Let’s see. First I started the Omega Wrap, a möbius style wrap made with several different weights and textures of yarn. A good way to sample several different [...]