I hit the road after dropping off the kids to school yesterday. My destination was the Knitting Pipeline Retreat hosted by Paula. She lives in Washington, Illinois and hosts a retreat there every year. For several years I have wanted to attend but the timing has never been right…until now. Knitting retreats take all forms. […]
There is always knitting going on in my house but not all of it makes its way on my blog. This cowl, however, was a really special finish. I bought the yarn in September at my aunt’s celebration of life and I was so happy that it didn’t marinate in a drawer for long. I […]
Even though it is winter outside and school is actually closed today for snow and ice, summer will be here before we know it. Summer means camp and camp means swim tests. We signed up at the YMCA so Mason could build up his stamina in the pool. Besides doing distance, the Boy Scout swim […]
Last Friday when I picked up Walker from school, we spent a little bit of time hanging out downtown. There is a coffee shop called River City about a block or two from Walker’s school that a number of folks had mentioned to me both for their coffee and their wares. Those two details made […]
I secretly have been knitting for the boys on and off over the last few months but I finally able to let the cat (ok, frog and bunny) out of the bag yesterday. The frog was an easy choice for Walker, the frog kid. I knit his first and worked on it a lot during […]
About a week ago I started baking granola to give as our Christmas treat. Usually the baking begins about the third week of December closer to when the kids are getting out of school but this year my motivation was a gift swap with my knitting group scheduled for today. I wish I had a […]
Laynie picked out yarn for Sophia when she was here visiting and requested a little cowl for Sophia to wear for her Christmas program. I crocheted these by holding two strands doubled. Basically, I unrolled the entire skein of yarn, found the midpoint and cut. Then I stretched each strand open to make crocheting […]
The third weekend in October is almost considered a holy weekend among many knitters. It’s the weekend of the New York Sheep and Wool Festival, affectionately known simply as Rhinebeck. Traditionally, those lucky enough to attend knit a special sweater (or two or three) to wear over the course of the several day event. […]
A few years ago I learned about the Mother Bear Project from the hosts of a knitting podcast I listen to. Every summer they host a Mother Bear KAL/CAL (Knit A Long/Crochet A Long) and every year I have smiled from a distance. According to the Mother Bear Project website, they are a non-profit organization […]
This is what you get when you combine baseball, good friends and knitting. My pal Melissa is the first person I met when I moved to Indiana. She was knitting in the “wild” at a mom and pop version of Chuck E. Cheese while her daughter was playing. We lost track of each other over […]