The latest newsletter from Berroco has a collection of felt ornaments to hang on the tree or around the house. Rather disappointing as the patterns aren’t for knitted felt, rather felt that you buy in sheets at the store, but there you go. Still, they’re quick fun-looking projects that you could do with kids.
This […]
Oh my. Little did I know that when my email went “ting” this morning that I’d be in for a treat. Terri, dear, sweet, wonderful Terri, sent me a late birthday present in the form of a gift certificate to one of her favorite on-line stitching shops (Stitching Bits & Bobs)!
I had to go out […]
It’s done. The brown dickey has been knit. It needs only to have its ends woven in and to be blocked. But all the blocking in the world isn’t going to make it right. I can’t give this thing to my uncle. Waaaaa. The fabric is soft and drapey, and doesn’t hold its shape, and […]
I’ve been knitting feverously, furiously, with great haste.
Why doesn’t it feel like I’m getting anywhere? This morning the secret project looked like this. I knit at a great rate all morning while I should have been doing other things. But hey, the person it’s for was out of the house, and I had to […]
It finally came to me. Why this shade of brown is so familiar. It’s just like the dress I had when I was in the Brownies way back in the dark ages. Isn’t it? Does it look like that to you? I have to say the yarn is softer, though.
It finally feels like I’m […]
Being a life-long yarn fanatic, I’ve always been interested in, attracted to things that can be made with yarn, and how to do it. I crocheted my first afghan when I was in third grade—yes, I still have it. I knit my mom the world’s ugliest vest about that time, too. Someone (a grandmother probably) […]
I feel like I’ve been knitting every spare moment. Oh wait! It’s because I have been. In between going to three holiday parties in two days, and getting started decorating the house for Christmas, oh, and working—today, not over the weekend—I’ve been knitting up a storm.
I’m now officially half way done with knitting […]
I know. I know. The dickey doesn’t really look any different today than it did yesterday. Oh, but it is different. There are twenty fewer stitches on the needles now than there were then. I’ve almost caught up to where I was when I tore all that out.
Instead of mucking with my gauge, I […]
Okay. Now these are cute. Berroco has released free patterns for two hand puppets: a dog named Ralph and a Siberian tiger named Roxy, as well as a pattern for some cute little mice named Monty.
I really loved hand puppets when I was a kid. Dad would make up stories for me. Or my […]
It seems that starting over is what I need to do.
Why is knitting so often like that?
When I started knitting this dickey for my uncle, I figured I’d go without a gauge swatch. It’s such a small knitted thing, a dickey, that I figured the dickey would be my swatch, and if it […]