This was the very first time that Stitches held an event in Texas. I was pleased and honored to teach at this inaugural event, and I had a lovely time. The students were engaged and enthusiastic, the venue is beautiful, and the market was spectacular. Being the first event, it was less crowded than other […]
I’ve been working on finishing up some knitting projects, and continuing to practice my weaving skills. I finally finished Strandwander, just in time for football season and supporting the Oregon Ducks with this great colorway by Holiday Yarns. I also finished L’Enveloppe, which is an amazing pattern by Sally Melville, knit with Knitting Boutique […]
I’m still playing with my Baby Wolf loom, and the practice is speeding my progress, if nothing else. The warps are going on smoother and more efficiently, so I can spend more time choosing patterns to try and seeing what happens when I add new weft, or change treadling pattern, or anything else that comes […]
I seem to have a short attention span right now, and am going back and forth between some fun projects – it’s Play time! I knit up the homework for Teddy Bear Sweater Finishing class (watch for this one, it is a super fun way to learn lots of finishing technique!). Yesterday I attended […]
Yarn stores are a very particular type of place. Unlike many types of stores, they have personalities all their own, and knitters have certain expectations when they enter one. This isn’t really fair because they aren’t homes, they are businesses. But, somehow, when a knitter enters a good local yarn store (LYS), it feels as […]
This month I had the chance to teach at Lion Brand Yarn Studio, in Greenwich Village, NYC. I was honored and pleased to be invited, and had a wonderful time. The staff and students are amazing, and if you go to NYC, you should definitely make the time to check it out. […]
Caterpillar Green yarns have been on my radar for awhile. The last straw was seeing Stephanie Pearl-McFee knitting with it at YarnFest. She was crazy in love with it, so I put it on my list of things to check out. I signed up for the mailing list, and when a shop order came up, […]
“Sassy” is a winner! It is comfortable and cozy, and very different from any other sweater I’ve knit. Bill’s eyes widened when he saw me in it, and he admitted that he hadn’t been very impressed with it, when it was being knit. But he loved it, on me! Color-blocking really needs to be seen […]
The knitting is done, ends are all buried, but there is still an important task to do before finishing a cardigan. Picking out the right buttons, and sewing them on. I searched through my button stash (yes, of course I have one!) and found the perfect button. It fits well into my simple “k2tog, yo” […]
Preparing for my only teaching trip to the East Coast this year, I developed a new class for teaching everything Annetarsia in a single day. I knit 3 fun projects for “Annetarsia: Be the Boss of your Intarsia”, and I knit them all twice, using different yarns. I wasn’t ready to move on, so I […]