FO: Sultan Pompom Hat
Click here to check out the October Giveaway I’ve made a new little hat: It’s a top-down beanie, and I love it. A quick pompom made without cardboard, and some leftover yarn turned out really well. I love the variation […]
Guest Post: Entangled Stitches Gloves from ellelittleblog
This week, I’m bringing you a guest post. This is a friend of mine from the knit-o-sphere, and she’s done a lovely project to share with you. I’ll be featuring a few more guest posts in the next few months, […]
Park Avenue Yarns
So recently, I headed down to League City, Texas to check out a trunk show at Park Avenue Yarns. I’m saving my post about the trunk show itself for another day (perhaps another yarny day, with lots of lovely yarny […]
FO: Big red cowl
Big needles, giant yarn, and we have a cowl: It’s a monster. And really cute double-wrapped: This yarn (Lion Brand Hometown USA) isn’t the fanciest or most expensive stuff on the block, but it will withstand football tailgates, washing and […]
Giant Red Cowl
I started babysitting when I was 13. It was more of a mother’s helper gig at first, entertaining the kids while mom and dad got housework done. As time went on, though, I did more and more, until suddenly, I […]
Wall decor: knitterly pride
Who hasn’t seen the fifty billion renditions of the “Keep Calm (Something) On” posters over the past year or so? I was thinking about ways to add more yarn references to my house, and it seemed like the only option […]
Slowing down
I haven’t been posting much due to a resurgence of work contracts and a substantial bout of illness… What an August! I’m still queuing things, at least. And slowly working on my worsted sweater, which isn’t very promising, as I […]
The Mystery Worsted
Okay, so I was in Florence last May, and went to a lovely little yarn store called Campolmi Roberto Filati, which I found via Nicky Epstein. It’s a lovely store, large and chock full of fibery goodness. The language barrier […]
Technique: Cables
Awhile ago, I was talking about knitting techniques I love or would like to learn. Today’s is cable stitch patterns. So, this is the most cabled project I’ve done: It’s a pattern for a cowl, but I made it extra long […]
Do you swap?
In the world of knitting (for those not initiated), there’s this thing we call swapping. A swap is (usually) a one time event, spanning over several weeks, in which participants swap things. It can be single skeins of yarn, a […]