My friend Chrissy and her two daughters have birthday in January, February and March. I got a wild idea this year to make them all slipper socks in their favorite colors. Chrissy likes pastels. Lily likes purple. Tallie likes blues. I was a little bit late shipping them off, but the Birthday Fairy brings joy […]
One the eve of the knitting retreat last month I received an email from one of my favorite designers asking if I would like to test her latest pattern. I was smitten with it from the start because of the colorwork section. It was unusual and I was not sure how it was done. I […]
Last year at the knitting retreat, I bonded with two lovely ladies whom I now refer to as my sweater sisters. We have a text chain and communicate almost daily. We were all looking forward to meeting again this year but due to illness, Paula, the hostess, had to cancel the retreat. Britni, Peggy and […]
At Bill’s office Christmas party, his nurse scored a dancing poop emoji from the Dirty Santa gift exchange. It spins around and emits some appropriate poop sounds. She has a two year old daughter, Charlotte, nearly approaching the potty training period so this gift seemed relative. I thought the toy was so funny and imagined […]
In our house, Super Bowl Sunday is more about the ancillary activities and culinary traditions than the sport of the game and the skill of the players. For me, Super Bowl Sunday is the culmination of a five month long knitting event called the Pigskin Party. I am usually knitting my final blitz project and […]
Hello there. This is my hatdana, a portmanteau for hat and bandana. The pattern was designed by Denise Byron because she wanted an accessory that could contain her locks. Most people style this around their necks as is shown here but I had other plans. Since my neck is always cold, I thought I could […]
I made a sweater! I started it May 1st and worked on it steadily in the beginning. Then, I hit the wall on a technique I didn’t know how to confidently accomplish and I shoved it in a bag. It sat and sat and sat. My knitting accomplices finished their sweaters long before I did. […]
Every now and then, knitting goes awry. A pair of socks I made and gifted to my friend, Liz, developed a hole. I noticed it when she was wearing them and told her I would fix it before it got worse. While many people believe you should darn a sock by standing over the trash […]
There is always knitting going on behind the scenes even though I don’t share it here all the time. I have been using up lots of yarn bits and bobs from my own past projects and from people who wanted to pass theirs along. It always seems more right to knit for charity with those […]
My advent projects are complete! My socks took me a little longer than I originally expected to finish up because of the design I used but they were worth the effort and the extra time. I started the sock with little white toes and knit one strip a day for 24 days. When the color […]