Back in November I preordered the Winter 2020 PomPom Quarterly magazine because the previews for several patterns looked really interested. I received it a few weeks ago. I think I also mentioned I did a little stash toss and reorganization a few weekends ago. In the process, I came across… Read More »Through the Trees – Cast On
On Sunday, we had our family needle felt session, with Cecilia Ho from FelTastic Fashion as our instructor. My husband comes from a large extended family – his mother is one of six children, and he has quite a few cousins. They are a family with a fairly strong creative… Read More »Family Holiday Felt Session
After finishing my Modular knit blanket last week and realizing that I have a growing pile of unblocked knits… I felt I should do something about it. So rather than rushing to cast on the next exciting thing, I diligently set about weaving in ALL THE ENDS. For the blanket,… Read More »Block Party
This week I made time to work on my Cliffs of Moher needle felt a couple times. Over the weekend, I started in on the cliffs, working from the one furthest away towards the closest ones. I also started adding in some of the white waves hitting the shoreline. Here… Read More »Constructing Cliffs
Over the weekend I finished up the main blanket, creating a neat square from all the trapezoids and triangles. I’d used up every scrap of rainbow yarn (and had to patch in some blue and orange to fill out the last rainbow shapes) and weighed out the remaining orange and… Read More »Well the knitting part is done
The vote was unanimous – pick one of the photos of the Cliffs of Moher. Ok, so The Vote was what AwesomeE said to pick. Y’all gotta step up if you don’t want her to let the power get to her head. After some careful deliberation, I settled on one… Read More »Cliffs of Moher and Kitten Prevention
It took me almost a month, but I’ve finished my second needle felt from one of our Ben Nevis North Face hike pictures. Some of this is because I had a long break between felting sessions. This is how far I’d gotten with it by November 10th: I’d previously finished… Read More »Another North Face View Finished
We’re doing another virtual Needle Felt workshop in December with my husband and some of his family as part of our virtual holiday celebrations. I’ve been working on pulling it together since September? October? Anyways, we have nine of us total who will be doing it. Cecilia Ho is putting… Read More »More Paints
Late last week I did finally get to have a go at one of the Knit Stars classes. I opted to start with the modular knitting by Tina Tse. It seemed like I could dive right in, and that the nature of the project would be conducive to knitting while… Read More »Why start easy?
I took off Thursday and Friday this week so I could watch and work on some of the Knit Stars classes, and work on felting. And then Tuesday night… I wrenched my right hand, spraining the tendons on the back on my hand where they connect to the wrist. And…… Read More »Such bad timing
