Look, I’ll be honest. I’m pretty proud that I managed to get five days into the New Year before the urge to cast on my first project of 2020 got the better of me. I realize that I cast on two new projects in the final weeks of 2019 and… Read More »New Year, New Beginnings…
It’s a good thing my resolutions don’t include “don’t buy yarn” because I’d have already failed. I’m not counting signing up for Clan of Igors since I technically signed up yesterday, in 2019, even if the yarn doesn’t arrive until 2020. But today I bought a couple skeins from Garnsurr,… Read More »Welcome to 2020 and a Happy New Year
As we were driving back from Voroneț to Iași, my aunt remarked that I had clearly been working on multiple things over the holiday and asked just how many I brought with me. And was I working on all of them? Or had I finished that red yarn before I… Read More »So how many projects did you bring??
We have had a couple slow paced days here so far, which is a nice change of pace from our usually pretty action packed travels. We arrived safely at my aunt’s house late Friday night after a rather intense 3hr drive through foggy country roads. One problem with driving in… Read More »First days in Romania
My aunt has been traveling to Romania regularly since I was in grade school since she did Peace Corp there. Both my siblings have been, but until now life hasn’t worked out for me to visit with her. Last year when she stayed with us for Christmas, we discussed the… Read More »Off again, this time to Romania
All of us who knit, crochet, spin, or otherwise participate in fiber crafts and fiber arts benefit from community, whether virtual or in person. And I think as we’re in We learn new skills from and are inspired by the works of those around us. My knitting skills got a… Read More »Contributing to our Community
I realized I never posted photos of my finished shawls. First, from earlier this fall, the fully blocked Dionne Shawl: Which I luckily remembered to photograph in full before I shipped it off to the lucky recipient – my mother-in-law – as an early birthday/Christmas present. Both are in December,… Read More »A little catch up…
One of the items I concentrated on this weekend when at home was the fingerless mitts in nalbinding. I don’t think I mentioned, but I’ve discovered nalbinding isn’t the best travel project for me. I thought it would be great – typically projects are small, you work with a fixed… Read More »Mitts Making Progress
This week has been working on a bit of this and a bit of that. Two items have enough progress to show and tell. First up, I’ve cast on and made some progress on the front of my Twisted Lines top. I was a little worried about picking up the… Read More »Progress on various and sundry
And do a little fixing… I was all set to block my fabulous little shawlette on Thursday between cooking dishes for Thanksgiving on Thursday, when I discovered a major problem: While binding off, I dropped a freaking stitch! I noticed it after weaving in the end of the yarn from… Read More »And then I had to wait…
