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Vacation Knitting Results
Posted on | July 15, 2010 | No Comments
What Knitting Do You Pack for Vacations? Aside from an extra bathing suit, flip flops, and a couple of outfits, there wasn’t much I needed for my family vacation in Mexico besides yarn and needles. Sure, I brought a book (Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Garden, which I loved) , but mostly I knew I’d be knitting. Wouldn’t [...]
A Little Reading With Your Knitting?
Posted on | July 9, 2010 | No Comments
A few posts ago, I posed this question: Are you a knitter who enjoys reading while you knit? Do you take your knitting to the movies and click away in the dark while the film rolls? When you go out for a meal with friends, are you knitting even as you wait for your food [...]
Knitting While Reading
Posted on | July 5, 2010 | No Comments
Or should that be reading while knitting? A group of us were sitting around the other evening talking about knitting (what else?), and one member of the group asked if anybody had figured out how to read a book while knitting. Now, most of us already watch TV while we knit and don’t think anything [...]
Never Too Much Shawl
Posted on | July 3, 2010 | No Comments
I’m loving this shawl so much I just had to share a couple more photos: Let’s take a closer look at that, shall we? Kieran Foley’s Emily Dickinson shawl pattern was a great starting point, but I had fun putting my own spin on it. Kim’s gorgeous Whisper Lace Merino from Woolen Rabbit doesn’t hurt either! [...]
Color Me Pink and Green
Posted on | June 26, 2010 | No Comments
I make a lot of bouquets out of whatever is blooming in my garden, and love having fresh flowers in the house as well as outside my windows. During the spring and summer months there are lots of possibilities, sometimes a seemingly infinite variety of options to combine. Friends of mine, aware of my flower obsession, have enabled [...]
Emily Dickinson’s Little Sister
Posted on | June 22, 2010 | 2 Comments
While back in New York last week, in between my other activities I managed to complete the Emily Dickinson shawl. I made one particularly obvious mod, though, that makes me feel I must call this “Emily Dickinson’s Little Sister.” For starters, she is full of holes instead of beads. I used Woolen Rabbit Whisper Lace merino yarn in the [...]
Twist superlatives
Posted on | April 4, 2010 | No Comments
Now that I’ve finished admiring my own handiwork in the latest issue of Twist, I’ve gone back through the rest of the patterns and decided that this issue is the best one ever! When I can’t make up my mind about which project to download first, and when there are fewer designs I probably won’t want [...]
Counting the Days
Posted on | March 22, 2010 | No Comments
Counting the days until I can knit again, that is. But to tide me over until then, I’ve been admiring the stash enhancements I found at Stitches West at the end of February. Pigeonroof Studios figured large in my acquisitions; the color “Vitals” in particular lured me into Krista’s booth – it’s a saturated, dramatic red [...]
Sshhh…!
Posted on | January 28, 2010 | No Comments
Here’s a peek at a couple of things I’ve been working on this month that are not yet for public consumption. Elann.com’s Lana Pura is 100% Tasmanian Wool, and has a delicious springy softness. I bought a couple of bags after Bonne Marie mentioned it in her blog, and have not been disappointed. It knits [...]
A Whole Lotta Knittin’ Goin’ On
Posted on | November 19, 2009 | No Comments
Despite an annoying lack of cooperation from my cranky, stiff, crampy, in-need-of-R-and-R fingers, there are a few projects in the works – more than I usually work on simultaneously given my inborn tendency, supposedly the fatal flaw of all Geminis, to get quickly bored and just cavalierly toss the incomplete projects into the “mañana” pile, never to be [...]