I’m a knitter not a miracle worker

I love the old Star Trek’s for their kitsch value. I don’t ever think i’d knit a Star Trek sweater, but I was shuffling around the web looking for colorwork patterns and I ran across this…
http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/allpatterns.htm
I freaked out because I took one look at this chart and thought… who the hell would want to knit [...]

Where to find good tutorials

I really like the Knitting Help site as a tutorial site.
I recently held a Knit Nite at my house and made sure we had a laptop computer set up in the crafting area so that we could reference sites like Knitting Help or even stitch references/instructions and patterns. Okay, we also used it to [...]

Scarf for my Alma Mater and What’s Wrong with Red Hart Yarn

Whooo Whoo… not that I have the time to knit it right now.
Though I still love gargoyles. They’re so cute and menacing at the same time.
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0512/issue/UofCScarf.pdf

Oh, oh, oh… I found this funny post on Red Hart yarn. Apparently items knit in it can survive horrific disasters unscathed.
http://community.livejournal.com/knitting/869294.html
Can you imagine? I wonder if [...]

Skull and Bones and Funny Nazis

I want to design a scarf for someone with a skull and bones. I found a pretty good pattern here at the Domiknitrix.
The skull fixation reminded me of a funny funny clip from “That Mitchell and Webb Look”
Have you looked at our caps recently… the badges on our caps… they’ve got skulls on [...]

Knitting Bunny

Untalkative Bunny goes to a knitting circle:

Sew(knit) little silkworm, sew(knit)…

Remember that old cartoon where a familiar cartoon pig has the little silkworm that makes all sorts of silk dainties when he says the word “Sew (So).”  This was probably one of my favorite cartoons from my childhood. Though admittedly the little oriental caricature of the silkworm is a little irritating. But what can you [...]

Nanatoo the knitting demon

I got on one of those sort of fixes tonight…. I wanted to find stuff on knitting humor. In my efforts to collect knitting humor and pop-culture lore, I remembered one of my favorite episodes of the Mighty Boosh, “Nanageddon.” Nanatoo is one of the most feared demons of them all… she knits [...]