Happy Valentine’s Day, knitters! This valentine is from a Ravelry friend. It made me smile this morning before I’d even finished my coffee. Hope it makes you smile too. My knitting is mostly therapeutic these days because it’s finals week, and on top of that, I’ve been traveling some. …
If I were hip and cool, I’d be tweeting this. Instead I’m posting here (draw your own conclusions re: my hipness) that I just signed up for the Basics, Basics, Basics course offered by The Knitting Guild Association. It’s the precursor to the Master Hand Knitting Program. WOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Okay, so this wasn’t the way I planned to open my next blog entry, but what’s a knitta gonna do? I’ve decided to look at this mess as a breakthrough. I hate to frog. Haaaate to frog. In fact, I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever …
This is the first Monday since Christmas that’s really felt like a Monday. Munday. Muuuundaahy. During the break between classes over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been giddy with the freedom. There have been walks and novel reading and long, wandering conversations with my people. I watched the first …
“It doesn’t seem coincidental that the language of knitting has a whiff of narcotics about it.” That’s the first line of an article on knitting in the Dec 11th edition of the Irish Times. The whiff turns out to be needles and lines, which is only mildly funny, but I …
Is it always this stressful in December, or is it just 2014? Or just me? Work is crazy busy, daylight is brief, holiday-related expectations are high. I’m knitting, knitting, knitting, every spare second, and that helps keep the demons at bay, but wow—it’ hard to breathe sometimes. This article on …
Happy Thanksgiving, wherever you are. Among other things, I’m thankful for the internet that lets us connect with each other from all over the globe. On the home front, knitting is keeping me sane despite a crazy amount of work and one dead computer. This didn’t help . . . …
I haven’t done a lot of knitting today, but I did make a mildly interesting knitting discovery. It happened at the gym. My normal pattern is to listen to an audiobook while I’m doing my workout. I spend about half an hour on the treadmill and then about forty-five minutes …
So I was finishing the body of the Adele’s Legacy sweater last night when I was presented with an opportunity for growth, or as my husband would say, an AFGE (pronounced aff-gee). I’ll let you guess what the letters stand for. I was about an inch into the ribbing at the …
Here’s where things would have started to slide during the first iteration of this blog. There is knitting (thankfully), but I have nothing special to report—nothing newly finished, no milestones reached. The incomparable ladies of the Limestone Creek Fiber Guild met yesterday, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself as usual, but …
