County Fair Scarf
I did it! With minimal crochet skills a few days hiatus from sweater knitalongs, I completed my County Fair Scarf by Claire Denny. Why did I put off making this…
Riverine Pullover
I’ve been neck deep in Summer KALs, but I do have a finished object!! It’s the Riverine Pullover, by Andi Satterlund, from Pom Pom Quarterly issue 5. That’s the…
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Ease in Elizabeth’s Style
I took a break from reading Knitting Without Tears, for the Canary Knits Knitting Book Read-a-Long, until I put at least one thing I learned into practice. That thing was learning to knit…
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The Classic I Must Knit
When Kristin of Voolenvine Yarns announced a knit-a-long devoted to all of those patterns that every knitter out there seems to have made but myself, I knew I had to…
Summer Sweater Knitting Along
Remember when you would go out to eat with your parents and they’d see what you ordered and say your eyes were bigger than your stomach? That’s the way I…
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The Continental and -1 Needles
I’ve now read through the first three sweater recipes in Knitting Without Tears by Elizabeth Zimmerman for the Canary Knits Knitting Book Read-a-long. Unlike the first time I read this book, I totally…
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Now that I’m famous…
Did you see it!?! For a few beautiful days I was the center of the universe… the knitting universe of Ravelry that is. Well, the Oud Tank I knit was,…
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Aquae Tank
These are my Aquae Tanks. The pattern, by Hilary Smith Callis, is the perfect summer tank. The straps are wide enough to hide other straps, I can used worsted to…
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I Have Sticks, Yarn, and Slightly Below-Average Intelligence
“Really all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence.” “.. what’s the sense in planning ahead, unless you have to?” “…contrary to…
It Only Took 13 Years…
Thirteen years ago, while staying in a cabin outside of San Antonio, I collected native air plants (ball moss, I believe) from a trail to bring home and hang from…