A few weeks ago I was pottering around the ol stash (yes, its a geographical location) and came across one of the rarer skeins of yarn a knitter dune certaine age could possibly have. I came upon my ...
Thanks to all for tolerating my brief foray into merchandising. If you are still itching to acquire more stash, just click HERE and HERE. Ahem.Several weeks ago I participated in a swap (the one that...
From: The Department of Shameless MercantilismTo: Yarny PublicRe: Yarn that is priced to SELLIt has come to my attention that I have, as it would appear, acquired an amount of yarn that even if I wer...
February: Groundhog Day is a snoozefest, Presidents Day is underwhelming and Valentines Day is perennially fraught (short version: "forgot it was a holiday, were celebrating it? blah blah, oops&...
January, almost over? Sheesh, I really need to get with the program. I have loads and loads of WIPs and FOs people, so if you can still tolerate my erratic and maddeningly undependable ways, you are ...
Oh hello! Yes Im the person that was just going to give away a skein of Malabrigo a few days after posting and BOOM its a month later. Yes, well, thats par for course around here Im afraid to to tell...
I consider myself quite lucky because just as my tempermental junior divas grow increasingly weary of my FO photo shoot requests and start to try to write riders into their contracts with me (iTunes ...
Seeing as I seem to be acquiring "special order" yarn like its my job, I figured it was time to actually knit with the stuff. What good is stoking an Internet yarn sensation if you dont act...
Of one of the pure joys of fall is being able to fire up the hat assembly line and crank out hats in pure Fordist fashion. Nothing is more exciting to this knitter than making hats. Sweaters are fine...
Oh well hello there! Yes its been quite an eventful month. You know, things like fiber festival wing dings, having your house partially remodeled and watching in realtime as your marriage implodes at...
Excuse me whileI brush that dust off my shoulder à la Jay-Z while I tell you all about the latest roll Im on. PEOPLE--Im on a roll because for the second time in the last five years Nora has asked me...
Normally I like to keep it light up in here, but today I have a serious question of a deep philosophical nature: can a shawl really be called an Ishbel if the slatternly knitter behind it only does o...
I never cease to marvel at the incredible talents of our knitpal designers. We are so fortunate to be surrounded by a cohort of super talented designers that seems to effortlessly churn out patterns ...
Things you most likely know about me by now: when I promise you phenomena such as a cavalcade of knits, you that this likely means you wont see hide nor hair of me for a month. Oops! Hey, its hard wo...
Those of you who are in the know and keep up with all the goings on in Knitlandia know the above picture to be of Caro, the beauty and brains behind Splityarn and Knitting it Old School. Can you even...
There is nothing more satisfying than finishing a project that has been languishing on the needles for, oh, the better part of two years. I remember seeing my pal Juliefricks test knit version at MDS...
If there is one thing Im basically always game for, its a good ol KAL. To me there is nothing more fun than doing a project at the same time as a bunch of other knitters because you guarantee that yo...
Stripe study indeed: you best be prepared to study and study those stripes because you will be spending a lot of quality time together. In fact youll have a blooming PhD in stripes by the time youre ...
Well the Shetland Triangle is the stuff of legends for a very good reason: it just WORKS, you know? It is supremely wearable and quite easily memorized. You always know exactly where you are at all t...
I was very tempted to title this blog post something like Thats a Wrap! in the great tradition of American Corniness, but instead Im going with the straight up title of the pattern: Herbivore. Learn ...
Frankly I dont understand how I could have not blogged about these two hat patterns earlier. Ideally it would have been before the freight train known as Daylight Savings Time flattened me and turned...
Back at the tail end of 2010, I signed up for a super sweet lil neckware swap over on Flickr. Moments later that good ol trusty companion SELF-DOUBT arrived right on schedule. That train is never lat...
Any and every chance I get to work with my beloved Felted Tweed is time well spent, lemme tellya. Any respectable inventory of this fair yarns qualities would have to include mention of the unbelieva...
Several weeks ago, before I became a virtuous knitter who made do with her (quite abundant) stash, I was a slovenly, undisciplined knitter who bought many random skeins of Madeline Tosh yarn with no ...
About 17 seconds after first seeing this pattern I had not only downloaded the pattern but also sent my young one up to the 3rd floor to retrieve the yarn which was at the bottom of a tupperware cont...
After all the pay-attention-to-your-chart color work knitting thats been happening around here, Ive been in serious need of a plain jane zone-out knit. This is a first of a series of unimpressive yet...
For all of you thinking about doing the recently released Through the Loops pattern Idas Kitchen, please beware that you will be undertaking a project that is 100% addictive and may very well be one ...
Not much to say really about this pattern, you know, except HOLY TOLEDO IS IT EVER AMAZING. I mean, when I saw this pop up on Kates blog I knew within a nanosecond that Id be making it as it has all ...
I know Ive said it before, but I am such a small accessories knitter. Cowls, hats, shawlettes, mittens, not-too-complicated scarves? I am so there, with bells on. Sweaters--ok, Ill give them a go onc...
As you might know, I never do anything by half-measures, especially when it comes to participating on land-rush style buying of new brands of yarn. I have a tendency to go, oh what is the expression....
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