I went to the Knitter's Frolic in Toronto with a few things in mind. One of them was to find yarn for the Cleopatra Wrap. And I did.

Tanis Fiber Arts Laceweight in 'Garnet'Beautiful wonderful, soft, squishy, laceweight wool. *sighs* I couldn't wait to get it started, I even bought Addi turbo needles to knit it on cause I thought it would be fun ( ( Read more... )

You're excited to begin a project and you have everything in place. You've even seen and felt a finished product from the same project that your friend had done before you. You're hooked - you want to do this too.

This happened to me recently after seeing my best girl Katy, aka kitty_van_kat's Monkey Socks. I was amazed at how simple the pattern was, and ( Read more... )