If yarn were cake, I’d have arteries clogged with felt right now.
Thanks to my mom and my dear Kaetchen for enough yarn to get me through winter without even touching my stash!
Here’s the basket my mom had waiting for me when I got to Hunt this week:
Not pictured, but even more lovely, are the six [...]
Two new projects underway: a Holey Moley poncho for my friend Annalie and a felted hat for Kelly.
I just finished the test swatch for the hat. It’s 8 ½” wide and 7″ high. I’m going to go grab a zippered pillow case to throw it in for the felting and then see how [...]
So, I’ve had an order in at the Yarn Barn for months for Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece in Candy Apple Red. I believe I may have mentioned it once or twice on these pages. As I was approaching the point in the Monk’s Travel Satchel that I really needed that colorway, I ordered [...]
Can you feel that?
I could ask if you could smell it, but it’s not really an olfactory sensation. It’s not really tactile either. It’s something perceived through all the senses, a combined input to your mind that can only be described by the very general word ‘feel’.
Very simply, I’m talking about a change in [...]
I’ve been blogging more but saying less about knitting lately. Cari has been inspiring me with her tragicomic tale of the Chickami and other w.i.p., so here’s what I’ve got going on at the moment, in no particular order.
First, there’s the multicolored hat I’m making for Ann B. It’s done in two shades [...]
I’d been really good about not buying any new yarn. My LYS, the Yarn Barn, is run by a wonderful lady named Bobby who doesn’t mind that the knitters sit there on Saturdays for hours knitting and not buying yarn. She figures that having a table full of people practicing the craft looks [...]
My immune system is officially fired. I’ve got another virus that’s been hanging around my throat and head for about four days now and it’s really starting to irk me. So I cored out my long bones and tossed the marrow in with a bunch of old books and clothes that are going [...]
Here is yesterday’s entry again, this time without the rot-13 encoding.
I got a wonderful package in the mail this morning from the most wonderful Urban Gypz. She sent me three skeins of hand-spun yarn (spun by her own hands!) in different colorways. I think I can produce two nice little hats out of [...]
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Have you ever given someone a finished object that you were really happy with, only to suffer shock and dismay when it got torn or frayed shortly afterwards? Do you have an heirloom sweater packed away in plastic to keep it from the ravages of moths? Have you ever wished that your fashion [...]