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 [...]

Local Blend Yarn

Woo-hoo! I finished a spinning project – the Local Blend Yarn! And you know what that means – finished one thing, start another right? ;) No, I’m just kidding! The Pinky Swear mitts will be finished next & the pattern sent along to our friend the intrepid dyer Gryphon! (I love love them! The second [...]

A Lovely Gift, Recycling, and A Creative Challenge…

My dear Sis gave me an old store-bought hat that she no long wears for my frogging pleasure: That in and of itself was a very kind and thoughtful thing to do (Thanks Sis!). But… It’s cashmere. It’s so soft. What a wonderful surprise for a knitter! I suspected when examining the hat that the [...]

Habu Cotton Gima

Habu Cotton Gima, for Florence, from Ruth. I love the structural, almost architectural quality of it in the skein; it’s difficult to capture the crisp texture – and the color too, palest lavender. It’s lovely. I’m going to enjoy knitting with this yarn – Thank you so very much Ruth!

My Knitting Life

I tend to be a fairly focussed knitter. This doesn’t mean that I always complete every project, or that I work on only one project until I consider it done. There is a bit of ebb and flow and some projects that surface multiple times, some that get placed on hold indefinitely and others that [...]

Vacation Installment 1 – Or, a knitterly thing we did!

Our vacation in review will be brought to you in installments. It was just the break that we needed and we squeezed an awful lot into a week and a half (not the least of which – 60 miles!). We made so many happy memories along the way and there is just too much good [...]