I finished knitting my Oppositional Cardigan over the weekend. It took a little to block it as the weather turned cooler and damper at the beginning of the week. I also had to be careful to pat it into shape and not stretch it, or the superwash wool was ready… Read More »Opposition(al) Conquered and Snuggly
In 2020 I signed up for Undercover Otter’s Clan of Igor club. This left me with lots of yummy Undercover Otter yarns, but I also received little goodies each month of various types, from gummy worms to rainbow pens. One of those goodies was a little progress keeper in the… Read More »Might have gotten carried away
As I mentioned a little over a week ago, this past weekend saw a couple different virtual fiber festivals. I joined a couple of the Knit+Escape demos and sessions, and plan to watch some more of them this week while the recordings are available. One of the sessions I attended… Read More »Back and Forth to Go Around
On Monday I finally finished up my needle felt stream painting. It sat untouched for a while for a couple reasons. I was working to make a pair of socks pretty quickly for a couple weeks, and thus worked on very little else. And then I just needed projects for… Read More »Abstract Stream – Finished
A common problem many knitters have is that their cast on edge is too tight, particularly with a long tail cast on. There are various solutions people propose, and others suggest some of those solutions won’t work. The most common suggest is to either go up a needle size or… Read More »Long Tail Cast On – How to Loosen Up
This last week or so, I’ve picked up my hand spinning game. First, I finished plying my Pollen Gold yarn on Monday: It looks really lovely in the sunshine in particular. I still need to give it a bath to set the twist and see what characteristics the finished yarn… Read More »Spin Spin Spin
A little over a month ago, my husband and I learned that one of my family members has a terminal cancer diagnosis. As we don’t live nearby and due to Covid can’t even visit (literally probably can’t get there – definitely can’t in any helpful way thanks to quarantine rules),… Read More »A Last Project for a Very Knit Worthy Person
So, I must confess… we’ve had a couple visits from the delivery people this week. The first was to deliver some yarn I’d ordered from a shop in Berlin, Wollen Berlin. This is one of the shops I visited in Berlin what seems like ages and ages ago (hmm… probably… Read More »Can You Have Too Much Orange?
After two weeks of project monogamy, the rebound has hit me hard. It’s not so much startitis (though I did start one new project) as bouncing between various things I had going already. I worked away at my Pollen Gold fiber, finishing up the last of the singles and getting half… Read More »Rebound Projects
Okay, I realize the title of this post is a little… how shall we put it? A little silly? But I’ll get to the reason soon. First, a quick update on the Pollen Gold fiber I’ve been spinning: 3/4ths of the fiber is now spun into singles. The color is… Read More »Squee!
