Knit/Wit

It's a good thing that I had last week's posts written up and scheduled early in the week because I got hit with a sinus infection m...

Lately I've been feeling the bug to spin all the things, which tells me that spring may finally be upon us. After all, I tend to do a lo...

And here we are for round two of the Defarge Does Shakespeare sock pattern preview! There are three more patterns, including one by yours t...

If you are a fellow listener of the Craftlit podcast, then you may have heard about a series of books of patterns inspired by literature. T...

While I've been more successful in the last year or two in spinning slightly thicker yarns, my default is still very thin singles. Case ...

It has been quite a week. When I published my last post , what I did not tell you was that I was doing it from my bed with a sick kid beside...

Several months ago, courtesy of Stefanie at Stitchcraft Marketing , I received a beautiful skein of madelinetosh pashmina in deep watery blu...

I did a lot more knitting than spinning in the last week, but I did not forget about my Boogaloo spinning project. On Friday night, by an am...

I think it says a lot about a pattern when I can't wait to get home and work on it. That has been the case all week with my State Fair C...

Remember how I said I was going to bring on spring with my knitting? Well I think I may have been successful. Yesterday was my birthday, and...

After waiting to do it for several months, I finally started spinning my second braid of Fat Cat Knits Boogaloo this week. I've spun up...

It's been a very long, cold, miserable winter here. We had another storm today, and it was a slog to get anywhere (thankfully, Rainbow...

Several months ago, Rita of Yarn Hollow contacted me about a possible collaboration. Rita has been dyeing up some Pittsburgh-themed colors ...

Once upon a time (or about five years ago), my favorite fiber pusher was very popular, and her shop updates would sell out very quickly. On...

Last week, I tried to start the next pattern in the Curls book. I thought I'd try to use the leftovers from my Dalgada Cowl , but it s...

If you've kept up with my blog over the past several months, then this hat will look familiar to you. First, I knit a prototype in hands...

Spinning this week has been about the second half of things. For one thing, I spun up the second half of my merino -- in fact, I did it all ...

It's cold -- you probably knew that already. Here it's been cold enough that we've even broken some records. When it gets like t...