Since 2019 began, I’ve been a bit of a whirling dervish in the new projects department, and considering my low tolerance for disorganization, serious action was required. A week or so ago, I lost my senses and agreed to do a test knit for Tin Can Knits. As usual, the deadline is tight and I’m… Read More Project Management
Hi all, Nice to “see” you again. Busy summer – no time for posting. That’s the best I can do for excuses. Anywho…let’s move on, shall we? So, a year ago I knit this sweater (Sandy): Nice, right? The stripes turned out really cool. However, after it’s first wear, I realized that it was too… Read More The One I Couldn’t Get Right
Back in March, I set up a silent auction offering custom knit services to raise money for charity. You can read the post here. As promised, here are the results. When both auctions had closed, the winning bid for the accessory was at $100, and the garment lot was at $260. If I do it… Read More Knitting for Cause – the results show
I enjoy being charitable. I participate in worthy fundraising campaigns. I donate a portion of every paycheque to great organization. I help out the homeless directly and indirectly. But I’ve never been all that keen on charity knitting. A loooooonnnnng time ago, I knit a few bears for Doctors Without Borders to take to Africa,… Read More Knitting for Cause
Hooray! It’s a fait accompli. I won’t bore you with too many details, just the good stuff…loads of pretty pictures. All the finishing is crochet. The joins are continuous flat braid. The border is a round of single crochet scallop stitch in the Feather Grey, then a round of reverse single crochet in the Summer… Read More All Together Now
Essay: How I Spent My 2017 (well, some of it anyway) Every month last year, I knit a couple of these: Yup, that’s 30 blocks – not yet joined – we’ll get to that part. First, how and why… You may recall back in September, I gave a sneak preview of a handful of the… Read More A Year in the Life (of a knitter)
Seems there’s this thing that happens when you’ve been knitting for, well, ever – you start to believe that the rules don’t apply to you. The latest issue of Knitscene has a most charming polarbearsnowflake hat. All the cute, right? I showed the pattern to my knitting group at work yesterday and they challenged me… Read More When will I Learn?
This is kinda sorta-ish the second part of summer vacation post. So, while we were travelling by map around BC and Alberta this summer, we happened upon (okay, deliberately sought out) some retail establishments that carried my favorite products, yarn, and yarn related stuff. I also scooped a few choice items at Vancouver’s Knit City… Read More Urges and Acquisitions
I love a good road trip. The scenery, the tunes and audiobooks, the snacking and stops for ice cream…all good stuff. But the very, very best part of road-surfing one’s way through a vacation? The primo knitting time. Hours and hours of uninterrupted, guilt-free knitting. Pure bliss. This year, our main vacation ended up split… Read More Knit-Ventures from First Vacation
I think we can all agree that Ravelry is a handy-dandy tool for managing our knitterly holdings (yarn) and desires (queue and favorites). So handy, in fact, that I can tell you with absolute accuracy that I have 127 musthaveknitwantnow projects in my queue and 175 yarnalicious entries in my stash. Surely I need not… Read More Mr. Q meets Ms. Stash
