Knit/Wit

Last night I decided it was finally time to break out the Dye-Your-Own Knit Picks yarn and the packages of Kool-Aid I had in my pantry and m...

After taking Blanche in to work for some feedback from my fellow work knitters, I did a bit of surgery on her Thursday night. Specifically, ...

I have conflicting emotions about sharing the following with you, which I'll explain later. But, as I've been talking about it so mu...

Call me anticlimactic if you will; I still haven't finished Blanche-Neige. I did some seaming last night and sewed in one sleeve plus on...

Here are my answers: 1. How often do you set aside time just for yourself? Every day, no matter what, even if it's just a few minutes ...

This is not the greatest picture, but here you have Blanche-Neige nearing knitting completion. That's right -- all I have to do is do th...

... for sympathetic knitters! Thanks to Miriam's facilitating, the lovely Caren in NH is sending me two brand-spanking-new balls of Van...

Well folks, it looks like I might be getting my hands on some more Merino Style. The details are still being worked out, but it looks good a...

I think -- THINK -- I may have found a solution to my yarn shortage program. Last night I unraveled the two swatches I did at the beginning ...

Let's just go in order here.... The Good I finished up the second sleeve of Blanche-Neige last night (all but a few ends to be woven in)...

Now that the time crunch of the Olympics is over and I'm under no pressure to actually finish Blanche-Neige, of course I can only think ...

This morning I woke up to a lovely surprise: my second migraine in as many months. Joy. I noticed my vision was going (my first symptom) whi...

The time has come to finally admit it to myself: I am not going to finish Blanche-Neige by the end of the Olympics. In fact, if we want to b...

Blanche-Neige is moving right along. I finished and blocked the Right Front last night, and then started in on sleeve #1 with a nearly new b...

I do have knitting content in this post, but let me first tell about the weekend (knitting went with me, so this is relevant!) J and I took ...

Balls of yarn left: 8 Yikes, could get scary down the line. I used a full three balls on the back, plus all of what was left of the ball I u...

Since the games are in Italy, I decided a little Italian was in order. ;-) I've been knitting furiously away at Blanche-Neige, and here ...

Like many other knitlympic "athletes" out there, I am just itching to start my Olympic project (and for the record, I have only 44...

This says it all: PITTSBURGH STEELERS - SUPER BOWL XL CHAMPS!!!!! (Perhaps now my favorite #86 will change the spelling of his name to Heinz...

Even those this posting will have nothing to do with knitting, and even though it's a rather personal story, it's just too funny (in...