Monthly Archives: May 2022

Maintaining Cat Bordhi’s legacy of Creativity and Enthusiasm for trying new things in Knitting

Cat Bordhi inspired and encouraged me.  She made me laugh, made me think, and work harder than I ever thought I could to create “Annetarsia Knits” with her charisma and fierce belief that the book needed to be written.  Cat used her gifts to inspire many people to think outside of the box and to […]

Sharing my love of Knitting books while waiting for Patty Lyons’ Knitting Bag of Tricks to arrive…

Every serious craftsman values their tools.  Carpenters, for example, have rooms of them, and no one talks about how much they spend on tools and how much room they take.  Well, those of us who make cloth need lots of tools.  Looms, knitting needles, crochet hooks, measuring devices, and YARN!  Lots and lots of yarn.  […]

Manolo by Yarnissima is finished!

I had so much fun knitting the Manolo sock that I knit 2 pair of them!  Just in case one goes missing… as they do occasionally.  It had been a long time since I’ve knit a pair of socks and it felt great to work with this really intricate pattern that was consistently interesting.  It […]

Pleasure knitting that got a little bit out of hand…

I’ve been working hard on converting knitting classes for the new era of in-person AND on-line learning.  I wanted something fun to knit during this effort that didn’t involve an actual class that I teach.  To clear my palate, as it were. My process for this during the pandemic has been to shop my stash.  […]