Finally.
I did it.
Unraveled the sock to part way down the toe, redid the shaping, finished it up again, and it fits.
Ta da!
More progress on the Iris quick stitch. I’m starting to slow down on it. When I mentioned rotating, Dave thought it would be nice if I at least finished up […]

A couple weeks ago, we asked about how you take care of your books, with one of the questions asking whether you write in your books. Well, what about books that are meant to be written in? Like, say, a journal or diary? Do you keep one? Obviously, if you’re answering this, you have a […]

There’s currently a lot more talk (and thought) about knitting here on my blog and in my life. But my evenings are never complete if I don’t get to cross stitch for a bit. Rather interesting, that. I think so, anyway.
I now have just a hair less than twenty percent of this piece done. […]

I am still totally loving working on this Iris Quickstitch from Heaven and Earth Designs. Loving it. I have officially finished page one of the chart. There are three more pages this size, and five smaller ones yet to do.
The nickel is there for size reference, so you can see how little space 5,187 […]

This week’s SBQ was suggested by Danielle and is:
Have you ever been to a stitching retreat?
Nope. No stitching or knitting retreats so far for this girl, nor any looming on the horizon. Even if I had the money for one, the ones I most want to go to are in places that I want to […]

Mindless knitting has its rewards. Especially when the yarn is yummy. And the results are full of texture. Knit a few rows, purl a row or two, knit, knit, purl, changing yarns now and then.
I actually knit sixteen rows yesterday evening.
When you back away from it it’s rather hard to tell that this […]

My dear friend Deb cleaned out her tea cupboard recently, and we got to talking. Seems one of the teas she and her mom decided they didn’t like is one that I do. Nicely, she said she’d send it along to me. Deb mysteriously didn’t answer any of my inquiries about paying her back for […]

I’ve been moving right along with the Iris Quick Stitch. I now have twenty-two hundred stitches done, which is just over eight percent of the total. Doesn’t seem like much, does it? Well, it is! I did six hundred stitches in the last week, and more since I took this picture. I’m currently going back […]

Have you had a happy dance yet this year? If so, tell us about it! (Or just point to the entry that talks about it.) If not, when do you predict it will be?
Ha ha ha ha ha. With three four BAPs on the go, I’m not going to have a stitching happy dance for […]

I don’t know if you remember—no real reason you should—but in mid December my dear friend Terri sent me a gift certificate to Stitching Bits and Bobs as a belated birthday present.
Shortly after I placed my order with them I received a note saying that part of my order was backordered, and they’d ship […]