Chrysalis Video Tutorials

This is rather belated, but I have been wanting to take a time out to say thank you all so much for your positive feedback and comments on Chrysalis. I appreciate it more than I can say – it’s one thing to come up with a design that you yourself are happy with, but it’s [...]

Handknits

You all made me feel so much better about my mending pile and my poor attention to it. It seems I’m not the only one who no longer even remembered what was in there to be repaired! And it is somehow reassuring that I’m not the only one walking around with staples (or paperclips) in [...]

Wardrobe Refashion – The Dreaded Mending Pile

My first (though somewhat dull!) goal for Wardrobe Refashion has been to work through my dreaded mending pile… The pile stored in a bag, both out of sight and out of mind for the past year (or two) except on the occasions when I have added something to it. Well, I finally dug through the [...]

WIP Update

I have been knitting a lot over the last month or so without much to show for it, it seems. In addition to the projects listed below, there is another lovely sock that I’ve been itching to make and which I have started at least 3 times, only to be forced to accept that despite [...]

The wonderful gift of blog friends

My favorite thing about my first year in blogging has been all the wonderful blog-friends that I have found. One day last summer, I got a comment on one of my garden posts from another fellow knit-blogger named Mel, who had also just posted about her own backyard garden, complete with pictures of her little [...]

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