Every year. late October and all of November is a hectic time for me. My daughters’ birthdays are three weeks apart in late November and December, and I always knit them something that I hope they’ll like after I put time and thought into it. This year I was especially pressed for time, because I … More Birthday Cats and Yarn Chicken
If you have read this blog in the past, you probably know that I have a love for color. But I’m also very attracted to cables and texture knitted in undyed, natural yarn. I have also talked a lot about my late-life goal of knitting my stash before I die, so I try to knit … More X’s and Lots of O’s
A couple of years ago I designed and made a pullover for myself based on a very complicated Japanese stitch pattern composed of lacy leaves, bobbles, and diagonal lines meeting up in a gathered stitch. There were so many moving parts in the stitch pattern that I couldn’t figure out how to work increases and … More Partial Amputation Will Be Required
In March 2020, Covid-19 came to town and it really hasn’t left. We thought it would, back in March, if we stayed inside and knitted, and it would have left if we hadn’t had a president like Homer Simpson who got bored with waiting for the curve to flatten after about five seconds and said … More It’s The End Of The World As We Know It. I Bought Yarn
Three years ago I was a scared beginning machine knitter. The one thing I felt confident making on my machine was rectangles, so I put my designer brain to work on using my very limited skill set to make something interesting and attractive. One of my first solutions was a double-sided poncho made of two … More Poncho Envy 2.0 X 2
None of this would have happened if my daughter had just appreciated her adorableness in the sweater I made her from the leftovers of Mrs. Maisel’s Coat, and had taken it home with her. But no, she said she looked like a colorful cow and rejected the sweater. Plan B is to see if her … More Flowers Springing From the Ashes
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