I brought a mix of yarn from the US to Germany – different colors and weights, and also a mix of yarns with a specific pattern in mind and others with just a general idea of what I might do. Take the yarns above – I was pretty sure I’d… Read More »What makes a project special enough?
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
For a little while anyways. My projects and stash have been getting a bit out of hand: multiple projects sharing a bag along with random skeins of yarn, fiber still in the bag it was mailed to me, towers of fluff threatening to topple onto the closet floor, coffee table… Read More »Craft Chaos Conquered
If you remember, one of the classes I took at Shetland Wool Week was “Quotidian Colourwork with Felicity Ford.” During the class we got started on swatches of our designs, and learned how to iterate on our first pass at a design. The 3hr class was nowhere near enough time… Read More »Stranded Colorwork Flowers
Warning – long post ahead We had a quiet evening Monday night, which was good because Tuesday was busier on the whole. The start to the morning was a bit smoother – my class didn’t start until 10am and second go round I’d figured out the coffee situation. Did I… Read More »Shetland – Tuesday
(or crochet, spin, or otherwise use yarn) … you convert your cat’s growth into skeins of yarn. Kitty and I had a trip to the vet today for a booster shot, and the vet said she’d gained 300g* since our last visit four weeks ago. When it comes to people… Read More »You know you knit too much when…
Or, more accurately, on the last arm. I finished all of the decreases on the left arm, and am setting it aside to work the right arm to the same point. Part of the reason for this is because I altered the decrease rate to account for a) my larger… Read More »On the last leg
Earlier this weekend somebody reached out to me via PM in Ravelry asking for help with the Frozen Leaves pattern, since I made it recently and they liked how mine turned out. They had two questions: where were the English instructions? and were the charts written out anywhere? because reading them would… Read More »What makes a pattern “hard”?
I promise that tomorrow I will put up a post of my new yarn treasures, what I have been knitting, and how Tour de Fleece is going. But we just got home from Amsterdam, and I have a kitten to pet. Or she says she will be claiming more than… Read More »Tomorrow
I received an amazing surprise in the mail: yarn! And really special yarn at that. My cousin was able to attend the annual carding and spinning event on a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico. First, I am extremely jealous as it sounds like she had an amazing time and the… Read More »Surprise Yarn
