I’ve spent too much time recently on simple projects and am up for a challenge. I took the plunge and ordered the Autumn Silk Cardigan from Ram Wools.  It’s a light weight lacey knit with a v-neck. Should look elegant in black Estelle Tussah Silk. And I ordered a Fiber Trends pattern – the Easy…

While travelling in WA, we stopped at the LYS near our weekend place. It’s nice enough, but has a huge inventory of Fonty yarns and not enough of others I read about in knitting blogs. Feeling proud of myself for having resisted temptation, while walking toward the door I am lured to an amazing blend…

Why do I get such a rush from yarn? I fear it’s an illness. While travelling this weekend I found a yarn shop to end all yarn shops in Everett, WA. It’s aptly called Great Yarns, a house converted into a yarn shop. There are rooms devoted to different yarns; a bulky room, a worsted…

I was in a knit shop and they were selling "Seeds of Hope" patterns for a fund raiser, designed by Deanna Lum Sisler, a two time breast cancer survivor. The patterns were knit in seed stitch on gigundous needles using five strands of textured yarns, in pink of course. I bought the pattern with some…

How did that happen? A case of over confidence, lack of accurate counting and a stitch marker with a mind of its own lead me down the path to the frog pond. Caryl, she is history. I have a hard time assigning gender to knitting projects, any inanimate object for that matter. I just tried…

When my sister and I were little we’d go through my mother’s McCall’s magazines and play Ummm and Uckkk. We’d look at pictures of food and rate them, one or the other. When my own kids were young we played it, too, with Canadian Living Magazine. Tonight the game resurfaced with a twist. Bryant, more…

Does this ever happen to you: out of the blue a childhood memory surfaces, clear as day. When I was writing the post "Show and Tell" I remembered starting a new school in second grade. I was wondering about when they had show and tell and the teacher informed me that at this school it…

We have a new expression in our house. It is the equivalent of "Off the record." So, if somebody wants to say something that won’t be posted they start the sentence with "No blog." It’s nothing new. I write a local newspaper column on parenting issues and my kids learned that nothing is sacred, they…

I have just finished winding a particular skein of Koigu FOUR times. I’m pretty adept at using the swift and ball winder, but this skein just wouldn’t cooperate. Fist time it wrapped around the post of the winder and I didn’t catch it until it was too late. Second time I couldn’t find the end…

My Koigu has come, my Koigu has come! Oh what a simple pleasure; it’s nice to be easily pleased. I just had a check-in call to home and was told I have two knitting related packages waiting for me. I have only ordered one, so my curiosity is roused. Do I go home for lunch…