Knit/Wit

Even though I'm supposed to be working on a pattern sample, last night I gave in to the siren call of the Dream in Color Classy and cast...

For the past several days, I have been knitting furiously to try to finish up the sample of my Hermia Mitts. I cast on the first one on Thur...

A very quick post from me tonight, mainly because I don't want to take more than a few minutes to stop spinning! I didn't get in as ...

This week's knitting is a bit of a mixed bag. On the plus side, I'm making good progress in my Hermia set sample re-knits. The hat w...

You may remember that last year I had a sock pattern published in Knitscene Accessories . Until now, the pattern was only available by buyi...

Thank goodness for my WooLee Winder bobbins and their large capacity -- I needed one to ply this whole skein! This skein is made up of ...

I think it goes without saying that I am not headed to Rhinebeck this weekend. It is my dream to get there one day, but I'm actually qui...

Still here, still sick. I stayed home from work again today (that's three days in a row, if you're counting, though the first two we...

Normally, as you know, I blog about spinning on Sundays. Yesterday, however, was not your normal Sunday. One of my best friends got married,...

Yesterday was a rather crazy day, so it should come as no surprise that I got very little knitting done. Once I finally got Rainbow to sleep...

As I mentioned in my last post, I didn't spin much over the weekend, in large part because I suddenly had the urge to cast on everything...

I really had every intention of spinning this weekend. I had hoped to finish up the second bobbin of my Southern Cross Fibre Eider wool so t...

Rainbow's sweater is almost done! (And it's a good thing, too, because it was quite chilly this morning and she grabbed a fleece to ...

Despite how busy things were over the weekend, I managed to squeeze in a few minutes of knitting time on Friday night to finish up my double...

It's been a crazy but fun weekend, so tonight's post is going to be rather short. I didn't do much knitting or spinning this wee...

I do a lot of knitting in lightweight yarns, so I'm used to things going rather slowly even when I have time to work on them quite a bit...

Way back in May, I knit a hat with one of the last remaining skeins of Madelinetosh in my stash. I knit it for the Mad May original design c...

I wish I had kept track to know for sure, but my rough estimate is that this skein took me seven hours or more to ply. But it is done, at lo...

I have spent the last couple of days knitting furiously on a swatch for a submission, which of course I can't show you (though you'l...

For a while there, I was stuck in the knitter's black hole where I kept knitting but nothing ever seemed to get bigger. This weekend, I ...