The Spring-Summer-Autumn Season has begun!  It is warm and bright and leafy and blossomy and little buggy things are cruising around and birds are out and about looking busy….And I am out on my deck enjoying it all 🙂 Here… Continue reading

It feels like I have not finished a knitting project in months!  Which is probably because I have not finished a knitting project in months  Sometimes it is like that — tiny-gauged pieces that take billions and billions of stitches… Continue reading

Our daughter Sasha loves cacti.  She has a growing number of pet cacti.  She was thrilled to see cacti in the wild in Arizona last year.  So, when I saw a kit for crochet cacti at Barnes and Noble at… Continue reading

This is one that Miss Marple (a knitter herself, of course) would appreciate. When packing for our trip to Reno, I selected a few knitting projects to take (as usual!), including my Brioche Leg-Warmers — especially appropriate for travel as… Continue reading

More often than not, my creative process is a matter of diverse components coming together in some cool way that was not really my intention at the outset.   My Brioche Poncho project is a terrific example. Component 1:  “Oh,… Continue reading

A picture is indeed worth a thousand words — seeing a knitted garment, a stitch pattern, a fabulous yarn is so inspiring!  A photo captures the moment. A snapshot can tell a story. So, Sarah and I are hopping on… Continue reading

So the “Embroidering Your Knitting” classes with Franklin Habit (at Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat) last week were FABULOUS!  Well worth knitting 4 mammoth white swatches for (although it turned out that the “2 for each class” was a typo… Continue reading

Does anyone remember the fashion color “Winter White”?  A warm white.  Another word for off-white.  Vanilla.  Cream.  Natural white.  Eggshell.  Oyster.  Ivory.  Bone.   It is the color I have been knitting for three days.  In strict stockinette with garter… Continue reading

Notice I say “December Knitting” not “Christmas Knitting.”  This is one of those rare years when I take a break from Christmas gift knitting.  I confess to having mixed emotions about it, but, overall, it feels like a good decision.… Continue reading

We have been home from Planet Vogue Knitting Live for a week and I am just now able to wrap my brain around a blog post!  VKL was exciting, stimulating, inspiring, and oh so much fun!  I was bone-weary and… Continue reading