Backstories of my creative projects
My sweater knitting project for 2018 is this wonderful Dark Night Rose Sweater by Koigu. In October, 2017 I attended the Vogue destination trip to Ontario where we spent our time with the lovely owners of Koigu Yarns. At dinner on our first evening, they gave away 3 kits to the participants. I was fortunate… Continue reading 2018 Sweater Knitting Project
Another year is coming to an end and I enjoy looking back throughout the year at my photos and thought I’d share some of my favorites with you. 2017 was a very challenging year for my family. Lots of change and so I continued to knit through every crisis. Here’s a few highlights: I haven’t… Continue reading Knitting throughout 2017
Here’s our family Santa. A hooked rug with a story. Santa is a hooked rug that I made more than 35 years ago for my son’s first Christmas. One strand at a time, I hooked each piece of pre-cut yarn around the printed canvas mesh that came with the kit. I finished sewing the binding… Continue reading Santa wishes you a Merry Christmas
I have been unable to post for more than 6 weeks due to another family crisis although I have been knitting my way through this latest crisis. It started with the Florida Hurricane in September. My Mom needed to be evacuated and with me 1200 miles away, it was stressful. Once we made arrangements for… Continue reading Knitting through a Crisis
I recently knit with Louet Kollage square knitting needles for the first time. I have been designing several spa cloths using two strands of Louet Euroflax linen held together and due to the nature of the linen, I decided to try using the square needles. I am so pleased with the process of knitting with… Continue reading Have you tried Square Knitting Needles?
Have you ever heard of a nostepinne? I had not and I’m amazed. I’ve been knitting and working with yarn since I was a child. As I wrote in my post Adventures of Winding Yarn, up until a month ago, I used 2 water goblets to hold the skein and wound the yarn into a… Continue reading More Adventures Winding Yarn
Having a new skein of yarn is such an exciting event. The color and texture, the possibilities of what I will knit with it. Before the knitting can begin, the skein needs to be wound into a ball. Now one would think that with all the knitting that I do, I would have a… Continue reading Adventures in winding yarn
My Pinterest Board of Creative Skills to Learn has a photo of the Cricket Loom on it. I’ve been admiring this loom for several years and wanted to add weaving to my creative activities. Finally, I was able to take a class at the Knitty Gitty last week. It was actually two classes. The first… Continue reading I Learned to Weave
Although I have many shawls in my Ravelry queue and yarn for them in my stash as I wrote about on February 15, 2017, I couldn’t help but start the Holmes Shawl from the Spring 2017 issue of Love of Knitting. This is a magazine that I don’t usually buy but this issue has this… Continue reading Shawl Knitting
The last 12 months have been filled with tremendous change in my life and it shows in my knitting projects. I spent the last few days trying to regroup my yarn and projects in an attempt to remember where I left off when the chaos began and to refocus my knitting. I started by going… Continue reading Updating my Ravelry Queue
