I have not had much success with my knitting recently. I finally got my act together to finish Liesl.


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I know I mentioned it at least once or twice, but I have been wanting to knit Lara Chau's Dipped Infinity Scarf pattern. Sunshine Yarns was selling gorgeous kits at Stitches but they were all wool sock yarn. I searched at Stitches and then quite a lot online afterward without much success. Finally, I realized that the best solution was a silk or ( Read more... )

Everyone else (it seems) was buying the kit for Laura Chau's dipped infinity scarf from Sunshine Yarns. I really want to make that but the kit is, of course, all wool yarns. 120 yards each of seven colors of fingering weight yarn plus 50 yards of an eighth color. I really want to make it too so it was my goal today to find non-wool yarn that would ( Read more... )

I must admit that I was not really looking forward to Stitches this year. I'm not sure what happened. I think I was bummed about Signature not being there and then there was lots of snow in the Sierra and it didn't look like Kristi would make it. Signature still didn't make it, but Kristi did, which is better than the other way around ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everyone! A new year means that it's time for me to look back and count my projects and yarn used. Yes, I'm weird, but that is what it means to me. Here's this year's mosaic of finished object photos.


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Cookie, Teenuh, Mairead, Juls and I visited A Verb for Keeping Warm today. The shop is gorgeous but, sadly, most filled with wool. Gorgeous natural dyed wool...


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I have honestly still not been knitting very much. The mad rush of things to do at the beginning of the school year subsided and then my own classes started. I'm taking two online classes in subjects that are a bit of a review for me but the act of taking classes has been a challenge. It's nice that the classes are online but at the same time it ( Read more... )

Cookie just made me buy yarn. How did she make me buy yarn? By sending me links. I'm a sucker, huh? (But seriously, those are amazing prices.)

If she keeps this up, I will never have to knit in another yarn as long as I live.

I am so going to have to find a store that is carrying Vickie Howell's LOVE yarn so I can see if it's as soft as it sounds.

Okay, I have a plan! For the April baby, the Turtle blankie in denim. (How cute is that going to be?) For one of the July babies: the sweater from Natural Babies in Knit PIcks Shine and for the other another Moderne Log Cabin blanket in Cotton-Ease. For the August baby, a sweater, I'm not sure what yet, probably from All Seasons Cotton ( Read more... )