2014

Happy New Year! May your 2014 be filled with health, happiness, and plenty of knitting!   P.S. I think I’m going to be okay with that extra stitch in my Lizard Ridge. It’s not something I’d want to get used to, but I’m pretty sure I can roll with it …

Showing Up

So about this blogging thing . . . Yesterday turned out to be busy with routine things, and while there was certainly knitting, and while I thought about this blog, it didn’t seem like I had anything interesting enough to say to write it here and post it, especially since …

Taking the Long View

What do you do when you want to knit and not be talked to? Do you think people ever put their headphones on with nothing playing, simply with the goal of listening to no talking? I’m not saying I’ve done this or even seriously considered it, but the idea does …

Whatever Gets You Through the Night

Don’t you just love to see people knitting in unexpected places? Thanks to news aggregators and sites like Pinterest, images of knitting in extremis are increasingly easy to find. Especially if you look for them. Which I do. It’s not just that I’m curious about when and where people knit or …

Christmas Eve Eve

  Today was a present wrapping, cookie baking, napping, novel reading, knitting kind of day here at Casa Knit Potion. It was also a chance to catch up on a bit of knitting news, which included this article about “why knitting is hot again.” Count on Kaffe Fassett to get …

Where Have You Been, Mary Thomas?

Knitters. Are you familiar with Mary Thomas? If not, then get thee to the library or book store and grab a copy of Mary Thomas’s Knitting Book. Holy cow! Here’s the first sentence: “If all the looms in the world ceased to produce cloth, and the art of spinning and knitting …

Lace with a Capital “L”

One of the great things about venturing into unknown territory is that, sometimes while you’re out there, you learn something new about the place you came from. Take my recent adventures with backwards knitting. I wanted to master this technique for the Lizard Ridge Afghan, which I’ll be starting for …