Beginning a project is usually pretty much a slam dunk for me. Buy yarn. Wind yarn. Swatch yarn. Cast on. Boom! Then, the journey begins. With Tripartite (a gauzy ubiquitous wear-how-you-want piece designed by Stephen West), the beginning was a… Continue reading

Well, Madrona is over and the Yarn & Fiber Market is closed. Even as I write, much of the yarn is rolling south to Stitches West in California (wish I was too!) Not all of it got away however! Sarah… Continue reading

I am making some progress on the Promises. We finally hauled out the hot glue gun so we could put the felt paw prints on the grandkids’ mitts. Then when we put them on Max and Gwen this morning we… Continue reading

I think this may be the Year of Knitting Promises. By which I mean the year I knit the things I have promised to knit. I confess that my thinking tends that way at the beginning of each New Year,… Continue reading

I am nearly done with my Seahawks knitting! I am on the last hat — which is for my son-in-law Jeff. This is my fourth Hawks Hat this winter. I also busted out a pair of mitts for myself with… Continue reading

I am working at scraping together photos of the grandkids animal hats. Meanwhile, I have photos of Colette’s Penguin and Gwen’s wolf pup! Both recently completed 🙂 In the realm of weird things that develop within families, we have “penguins”… Continue reading

Probably any other knitter-blogger would have put up photos of her 5 grandchildren wearing the adorable animal hats and hand mitts (the older 3) and birdy foot booties (the younger 2) she knit them for Christmas by now. Or a… Continue reading

Yesterday was the Feast of the Epiphany, Twelfth Night, the official last day of the Christmas Season. Today is the day I seriously consider taking down the tree. And cleaning up the Elf Room (aka My Study) where wrapping and… Continue reading

Actually, we traditionally do not begin our baking until about a week before Christmas. But now that the decorations are up in the house and most of the outside lights are ablaze and I am fully into gift projects and… Continue reading

December is here! I did my last row of non-Christmas knitting Monday night (it was actually the second half of a row — and only because I did not want to let it sit that way until Dec. 26). I… Continue reading