In the last couple of weeks I’ve fallen down a wool tunnel. I started going to Wednesday night knitting at Still River Mill a couple weeks ago, brought my spinning wheel last week, got invited to join a spinning guild, and visited yet another wool mill at the subsequent guild meeting.
I snapped a few [...]
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Go figure, it’s been a while. My son is nearly a year old now and I’m beginning to wonder if any of the insane chaos that is parenting two babies born 15 months apart will ever settle into something resembling normalcy. We have a blast, these kids and I, [...]
I had been trucking along, happily finishing the second sleeve of ye olde baby shrug, when I noticed I’d miscounted rows when I added my fancy little twisted stitch. The cuffs don’t line up, and I need to rip it out and reknit it. It’s a tiny little error, but on the scale [...]
I’m taking a well-deserved detour from the Blanket of Epic Waiting–it’s a quick little thing for the Lamb’s summer wardrobe. She has a bunch of cute little dresses that don’t have much coverage on top, so when I saw the Confection Baby Shrug while poking around on Ravelry, I cast on almost immediately. [...]
I went to Webs on Saturday with Good Mr. StringFactory, which was a great treat. (I used to live in Northampton and shopped there often, but I don’t think I’d set foot in the place in almost 2 years.) While we were in the warehouse in the back, we happened upon a small cache [...]
My friend Kerry sent me a link to a spiffy-looking shirt she found online. Look, a vulture! Riding a sheep! While knitting a scarf!!
I poked around, and found this on YouTube:
OMG, it’s not just a spiffy-looking shirt! This guy wrote a sea shanty about knitting! For his webcomic! [...]
