Happy New Year!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year’s Eve and a great day tomorrow! 

I’ve been doing a ton of swatching and am *this* close to deciding what my January sweater will be – that’s the swatch for it above.  Luscious, eh?
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Genmaicha mitts

This was a quick little knit that took me four days.

I absolutely love them, even if they are a tad large.  The yarn, Mountain Colors Bearfoot in the Granite Peak colorway, was a gift from Janet that’s been waiting patiently in my stash for the perfect project.  The pattern was interesting, easy to follow, and I definitely [...]

aftermath

Whew!  What a great holiday!  I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, if you celebrate, and if not, I hope you enjoyed your time off work! 
I finished my Christmas knitting in the nick of time…

I’d say the wee scarf was a hit, no?  I made it for my grandson, and yes, you read that [...]

Merry Christmas!

Almost there

I’m a little over halfway done with my Christmas knitting! 
I took a little break over the weekend and finished some yarn.

I’ve lamented that I have a hard time spinning a consistent laceweight, or getting much over 300 yards from 4 oz. of fiber.  Perhaps I’ve been spinning the wrong fiber.  This is 95% cormo, 5% [...]

metaphorically mopping

I have lots of stuff to chat about.
First – SOME PEOPLE will do anything, even birth a baby, to avoid finishing their holiday knitting!  Sheesh.  Congratulations, Carrie!  Get some rest – you deserve it! 
Me, on the other hand, I’m not so lucky.  I can’t just pop into the hospital and say, oh, so sorry, can’t [...]

Holiday knitting

The fact that Christmas is ten days away finally hit me this morning.  Fortunately, I only have two things that I HAVE to have finished – a wee little scarf and a pair of socks.
The scarf has been started and frogged but I’m not really worried about that.  I can do garter stitch in my [...]

Squishilicious

Everyone knows how popular the Noro striped scarf is – Jared started a craze and at the time of this posting, there are over 2,500 projects in Ravelry.
I’ve always thought they were pretty but I have one skein of Silk Garden in my stash and that’s not nearly enough for a scarf.  I do, however, have [...]

two weeks in a nutshell

* OMG – my blog’s been hacked! Help! *
* Web host can’t help me and the hack has removed my edit rights so I can’t help myself *
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* But I have a backup from three days before the hack!  Hooray! *
I have a finished object!  Yay!  But I can’t blog about it.  Boo.
* Web host [...]