My son is obsessed with his guitars. Yesterday he spent a good part of the afternoon building a cardboard replica of his Ibanez and now he wants to string it up and see if he can play it. He teaches himself songs, and he practices all the time. So of course when he got to ...
Even though I hadn't officially signed up for the November blog posting thingie (I can *never* remember the abbreviation) I was doing really well. I blogged everyday for 19 days. And there wasn't as much ennui and malaise as you normally get in a stint of that length. But life was conspiring against me. Actually Clearwire ...
The actual final finished object of the Pink Phoenix pattern gave me some gas. There was a dog involved and a lot of sickness, and too much walking and not enough time to re-knit what was undone. But it's finished. And I'm really, really happy with it!
I've been experimenting with shawl shaping again. I've made a lot of shawls and so far I really love the sideways construction. But this bottom up might be growing on me. I saw a shawl that was constructed in this manner and wanted to experiment with it. And then Brianna from The Yarn Side ...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Something special is coming. It looks like I'm about $710 short of my $2300 goal for the Komen 3-Day for the Cure. And if I don't make my goal (or pay the difference) I don't get to walk. So... October is Breast Cancer Month, right? The first week of October we'll be having a ...
I have a new free pattern out from the lovely folks at Classic Elite. A perfect quick knit for the last days of summer. Ok, I know, summer is going to last for 2-3 more months here in sunny Florida, but for the rest of you normal seasonal people, this is nice and quick. If ...
It's interesting to me to watch how life goes. Somedays I get nothing done, and other days I am so productive it's ridiculous. Sometimes designs fly off the needles, and sometimes the patterns write themselves. But rarely both. Most times, as is the case in Cordelle, it's one or the other. This shawl practically made ...
Sometimes it all just comes together. I had a good idea, and Petite Purls had an upcoming submission deadline. And just to make it sweeter, a photographer friend of mine has the cutest little girl ever. It was meant to be. See how cute?
This one has been a long time coming. I've known I wanted to do it for at least six months. And the actual pattern has been finished for nearly a month. Finally today, I got some photographs so I can show it to you!
Designing inspiration comes in many forms. One of the most fun is when the yarn just tells you what it wants to be. While I'm working at my LYS I have to rearrange the yarn. Make it look pretty. Re-twist it if it has come undone. Yarn is a tactile thing. So everyone touches it ...
