The new sign for Mazie and Olive’s room.
Hi All! I’m still (slowly) working on my Surfer Tee, but I’ve taken a brief hiatus to go to (and recover from) Maker Faire. Craftsy had a big booth with lots of fun make & takes. With...
This is a very poor sketch of the basic measurements that you’ll need to take: The measurements are: 1. Bust 2. Waist 3. High hip A. Bust to waist B. Waist to hip Take these measurements and wr...
Here’s Olive wearing her surfer tee, while holding MY surfer tee. This might fall under the category of Double Dealing (how hilarious are my glasses in that post!?) but then again, she’s ...
I haven’t knit a sweater for myself in a while! I’m excited to have this one in my size. I think that I may just have a chance to wear it if I can get it finished up in the next few days....
This is another mobile post from my phone, so please forgive the photo quality! We are just getting home from the Fancy Tiger event (so fun!) and I’ve decided to knit myself a Surfer Tee to mat...
Today I’ll be signing copies of Mom & Me Knits at Fancy Tiger in Denver from 2 – 4. Join me!
HI Everybody! So, as you know, there are lots of supercute new craft sites popping up all over. We all love our Ravelry, and you also know that I LOVE my Craftsy. BUT have you taken the time to check...
It was great. SNAP was well run, organized, social, fun, and really inspiring. You can see that I’ve made lots of updates to my own blog after attending great workshops by creators / owners / w...
So a few weeks ago, Angela Tong came to Craftsy to teach her RIgid Heddle Weaving class. While she was here, everyone at work totally caught the weaving bug, including me. I’m not very hard t...
Wow! My post about Carol’s new book generated over 100 comments! It’s a truly gorgeous collection, that’s for sure. I’m thrilled to announce that the winner is commenter numb...
You may have noticed my fancy new sidebar badge…but in case you don’t stalk my sidebar on a regular basis, take a look! I’m teaching at Interweave Knitting Lab this October in New H...
I finished this shawl not too long ago. I like it. Jenn took this photo of me the other day at work. the color of the wall is just amazing. I used two techniques that I hadn’t tried before. I c...
I’m today’s stop on Carol Feller‘s book release blog tour! Carol, knitwear designer, and author of Contemporary Irish Knits stopped by today to tell us all about her design process...
Woo Hoo! I just blocked my TGV. I used Anzula Squishy and US 5s. It’s so awesome! The pattern is really simple, and great for those nights when I’m just awake enough for an episode or two...
This is another mobile blog post. Even though the images aren’t blowing me away, I really will blog more now that it can be an on-the-go thing! Yay!! We had SO much fun this past weekend! I got...
With all the hubbub of daily life, it’s awesome when we get a chance to get away! A couple of weeks ago, we took the girls up to Keystone and just did family stuff. We rented a little condo wit...
This afternoon was super rad, thanks to RadMegan’s DIY lightbox class at Craftcation! I made the coolest, cheapest lightbox ever! Here everyone is working on their boxes: And here’s how m...
So this morning at Craftcation, I got to spend three hours learning how to make an adorable skirt from Christine Haynes! Christine telling us what we’re getting into: Measuring the fabric: Me s...
Hi Everyone! I’m writing from an amazing event called Craftcation in Ventura, California. I’m here with my colleague Emily from Craftsy and we are having a great time and meeting lots of ...
I made the girls matching sweaters. I used about 2 skeins of KnitPicks Brava. (Making each sweater cost about $6 to knit!) …then we had a tea party!
On December 18, our 2000 Toyota Corolla was stolen. This is a car that I inherited from my mother when I moved back to the States from Germany in 2005. Even though it was 5 years old, she’d on...
Now that I’m back at work every day, I make it a point to do creative, educational things with the kids on the weekends. Some weekends that entails making cookies or crafting decorations out o...
2011 has been good to me in many ways, but it’s also been crazy! If it wasn’t for these two little ones, I’d probably be questioning my ability to hold it together. We moved....
Firstly, let me apologize for being such an infrequent poster! My “nice camera” died and I’ve been trying to see if I can have it fixed or figure out how to download all of the stuf...
So. You know how sometimes you get a craft idea in your mind, and until you can fully realize this grand crafty plan, all else falls to the wayside? This is me with play food today. I mean I can...
As many of you long-time readers know (hi Mom and Dad!) I’ve recently joined the team at Craftsy.com. Those of you who are new to reading my blog might not have known that, and some of you migh...
Here are some corrected stitch counts for the Shapely Boyfriend Cardigan. These don’t change ANY of the knitting that you do, just correct the stitch counts in the yoke. I sent these along to A...
Hi All! I have a new pattern in Knitty magazine! It’s part of the Knitty Fall Surprise: O-Wool Classic [100% certified organic Merino wool; 198 yd/181 m per 100 g skein]; color: 4112 Rust; 5 [...
This sweater will be published in knit.wear, Premiere 2011
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