Knit/Wit

Is it really only Tuesday? It's been an interesting week so far. Yesterday the Mister came down with a Man Cold (the kind that requires ...

I don't have much spinning to share this week, mainly because I just haven't done much spinning this past week. I've been focusi...

Although I haven't officially declared myself to be on a yarn diet, I have been trying to make an effort to use up stash and work with w...

Work continues on my cabled Shetland scarf; I'm now more than eight repeats done, and I think I'll likely go to about 15 or so. I...

Well, no, not really. But I did finish up my Short and Stout on Perendale from Southern Cross Fibre yesterday, so naturally the song has bee...

Even though blocking takes away from my knitting/spinning time, I love the magic that it works. When the shawl was finished on Tuesday, it l...

Very soon, that shapeless blue blob that I've been telling you is a shawl for the past few weeks will start to actually look like a shaw...

First off, the good news -- I am posting this from my brand-new, tea-free laptop! It turns out that there was significant corrosion in my pr...

It's Thursday, and by now I've at least somewhat come to grips with the fact that in a month or so, my LYS will be no more. I want t...

The last two days, I've felt like I've been in a daze. I opened my e-mail on Monday morning to read the most horrible news: My LYS i...

I really thought I'd have another finished skein of handspun to show you this week, but all did not go according to plan. My goal was to...

It hasn't been a very good week for knitting for me. Work has been brutal, both physically and mentally exhausting, so while I have knit...

Although I can be a monogamous knitter when I need to be, most of the time I have more than one project on the go at once. I like having the...

This past week, I was determined to finish up the last Tour de Fleece spinning project I still had left on my wheel. I spent just about ever...

Since the end of the Tour de Fleece, while I've still been spinning, I've turned my attention back to my knitting. After finishing t...

At last, at long last, this slog of a project is finally over. Pattern: Waiting for Rain by softsweater Yarn: Baah! La Jolla (100% ...

The Tour de Fleece is now officially over, and while I've certainly produced a lot more in past years, I'm quite happy with what I a...

I haven't touched my Waiting for Rain since the weekend because I've been hoping that the amount of yarn I have left will somehow h...

I'm playing that game again. You know what game I'm talking about -- it's a game all knitters play at some point in their knitti...

We are now through two weeks of the Tour de Fleece, and I have a second finished skein. I've had better output in years past, but I'...