Everyone should knit with Touch Me once in their lifetime. The manufacturer describes it as sensual and it is. It is buttery, velvety smooth and the colours are deep and delicious. My tendencies toward texture go to the slubby styles. The creamy smoothness of Touch Me is like eating Ben and Jerry’s as compared to…

MSN Canada conducted a poll. They found that 14% of British Columbian online shoppers make their purchases in the nude. Excuse me? Fourteen out of one hundred people are freezing their buns in this damp and rainy climate while nakedly surfing the net? I have a hard time believing that 14% of those buying yarn…

We did more than shop this past weekend in Bellingham. There was a fair bit of knitting going on. First in the hour and forty minute border line up, then by the fireplace while watching LA Story and on lazy mornings after breakfast. Here is my Fleece Artist scarf. It was a slow knit, working…

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…