Heritage
Heritage, designed by Alina Schneider, is complete! Stitches were ripped and compromises made, but I did it and the fit is perfect. Like the other designs I have knitted from…
Redeemed
This all started about a year ago. Things were calming down in my life after a long spell of crisis. My daily schedule was starting to look like a…
Giant Sigh of Relief Project
Cumberland is my palate cleanser between sweater projects for the Brooklyn Knitfolk Hipster KAL. I realize I won’t finish both Heritage (below) and Feya before it ends, but the point…
Blog Plans vs Planned Obsolescence
It doesn’t matter how we stagger our device purchases, they all seem to become outmoded for our needs at the exact same time, every one developing issues that can’t be…
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Saguaro Blossom Hat
The last hat I indulged in during the Any Hat KAL is the Saguaro Blossom Hat by Anne Podlesak. I found this pattern in her Free Spirit Knits book, during an…
When your pom pom has a life of it’s own, you know it’s the correct size.
Now, my regular blogging can begin. Now, that all of the hurricane clean-up/ moving my daughter is finished. Now that I have completed my first week as a BSF CL…
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A Long Journey, Literally
Something…something got finished for the Summer Sweater Knit-Along through all of this vacation, then hurricane, craziness. I didn’t think it would happen when I had to frog my Heritage, but…
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When knitting is your comfort, and I interviewed Alina Schneider
Since we are hunkered down at home, awaiting more rains from Hurricane Harvey, I have gotten quite a bit of knitting done. (We are fine. We may get a bit…
Gingerbread Sweater aka Like Wearing Kittens, if That Were a Good Thing
I had high hopes of taking interesting photos of this sweater while on hiking vacation in The Grand Tetons. But just because I am surrounded by landscape that’s beautiful, it…
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Gathered Around Me
I’m still working on my Marley shawl, but my Gather, another Andrea Mowry design, is now complete. It isn’t easy to stand outside in a wool/ linen shawl right now. It’s not…