My Fiber Ed at the Knit and Crochet Show

I attended the Knit and Crochet Show this week and was fortunate enough to take two classes.
Fine shaping in crochet with Lily Chin. I recommend taking this class to anyone who has felt frustrated or limited with construction and design options in crochet. Lily’s excellent class helped open doorways to understanding how to shape garments [...]

I want to be the “Sweater Evangelist”

This was an uncommonly cold and snowy winter out here in the Pacific Northwest this year.  I actually was able to knit at least five sweaters from the beginning of fall last year to this date. I finished another raglan in a bulky yarn for my husband this year. I joke with friends that it’s [...]

Scratch that… no, unravel it

In the previous post I mentioned that I would dye machine knit blanks of my cotton yarn, assuming that I would knit all of these up in the handy knitting machine I bought for making hats and things.  I tried making a long blank with three 109 yard skeins of cotton and discovered that this [...]

Dye Party Extravaganza

I had a yarn/fabric dying party yesterday with some friends.
I have more pics of the finished yarns I need to share but here are some of the original batch of Kool-aid dyed yarns we finished yesterday afternoon. The Dye party was a huge success. We used my old kitchen microwave to set the dyes in [...]

Beautiful Babette

At Knit Night at the Naked Sheep Knit Shop, Elaine brought in an armful and then some of Cascade 220, wound it up then placed most of the colors on the table. She wanted us to help her select the colors for the massive Babette Blanket she’s planning to finish before October for a wedding [...]

You say Guernsey, I say Gansey

I’ve decided to embark on a little investigation and comparison of yarns as I learn more about the art of knitting a gansey. For some reason, I’ve become infatuated with the idea of knitting a Gansey with the traditional drop shoulder shaping. I know that drop shoulders are somewhat dated and reminiscent of the 80’s [...]

Quest for Father Dougal’s Vest

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of the “Father Ted” comedy series from BBC. I want to design a simple Fair Isle vest inspired by the character Father Dougal McGuire.
Last year, my brother gave me the “Holy Trilogy” of the entire series for my birthday. I’ve go through the series to get [...]

Hall of Shame – Unfinished Objects

I don’t have the heart to write any commentary on these. I was just cleaning out my UFO bin and dug up a few. I figured that putting these up on my blog might shame me to completing these projects. Also, it might be cheating, but do you think I could count the Aran sweater [...]

Learning Inventory

I need to organize what I want to learn this upcoming year. I’m going to start with the things I learned (that my feeble brain can remember).

Picot edging
Cable-cast on – yeah, can you believe that I didn’t know this? I’ve been knitting for many years and just learned it last year. I think I [...]

I’m almost there.

I just attached the arms to E’s seamless raglan sweater last night… so I’m on my way to finishing this. But more importantly I’m 93% done with my Christmas knitting! Okay, I was a little Obsessive compulsive this year and put things into a spreadsheet with a bar graph, but hey, IT WORKED!

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