I was recently reminded of those old games we used to play in the car as kids. You know what I mean – the ones where you had to find all the states on license plates? Or count the number of VW bug cars? Or find all the letters of the alphabet in signs (damn [...]
Spring Fling!
This year I was lucky enough to get into The Loopy Ewe‘s Spring Fling! The Loopy Ewe is a great online yarn store that is housed in St. Louis. Once a year it hosts “Spring Fling” which is a knitting event for 125 knitters featuring classes taught by knitting authors and designers and yarn dyers. [...]
Oh Mo.
In February of last year, Mo Rocca stepped in it…. This year, we had a bit of a followup:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Well despite the fact that March is for WIPS, I did cast on something new this weekend. In the past I have challenged myself to learn new techniques with some hand-dyed skeins of yarn. Of late, I have been very inspired by Wenat and her pooling stoles. You can see that I experimented with pooling [...]
Lost and found.
Lost. Last night, at knit night, the local yarn store owner announced that she is closing the shop at the end of April. For most of us this was both unsurprising, and a shock, all at the same time. It is bittersweet news for the owner, who is closing the shop so that she can [...]
Progress Report
I left you all last week with a post about the Olympics, and what I planned to knit. I just thought I’d give you a bit of a progress report. One Back: Check Two Sleeves: Check Front: Well I’ll give you a little peek here… I may even finish this weekend!
Citius, Altius Fortius
The 2010 Winter Olympics begin tomorrow in Vancouver and I’m super excited. Not only am I an avid watcher of the Olympics, I participate in my own way. Back in 2006, the Yarn Harlot challenged knitters across the world to undertake their own Olympic challenge, to tack a challenging project from start to finish within [...]
Jumpers
With a side of Goat Belly: Thanks to Teri for forwarding this one my way!
The power of Knitters.
I’ve had several posts in mind of late, but this one clearly deserves to be written today. On Tuesday, January 12 a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti. On Wednesday, January 13, the Yarn Harlot, knitter and author, posted the Knit Signal asking Knitters all around the world to do what they could to help the people [...]
G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S
One final sweater porn post before I jump into new projects! A couple of people have asked me how I finished the areas that I cut. When I picked up and knit the button bands, I knit them double the length I wanted (I started in black, and switched to the red about halfway through). [...]
