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? If you haven’t already, please leave me a comment to be [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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% [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 * knitknitknitknitknit * But I have a backup from three days before the hack!  Hooray! * I have a finished object!  Yay!  But I can’t blog about [...]