2010 – A Year in Knits

It is the last day of 2010 and I’m feeling, honestly, a little relieved. Sure, 2010 had some great moments but overall it was a pretty sucky year for hubby and I (not between us, just life getting in the way) and we’re feeling ready to welcome 2011. I for one am hoping that 2011 [...]

Holiday Gift Knitting

I think this is the first Christmas since I began my knitting obsession where I can safely say that I’m not stressed at all about gift knitting! I set out thinking that I would knit for a lot of people, then decided that wasn’t going to happen (it was, after all, only 5 weeks until [...]

Slow and Fast

I obviously go through many different moods while knitting. From week to week or month to month I change my mind about what I want to be working on and for how long. This always shapes the decisions of my next project. This time, however, it was something quite different. I received my sweater quantity [...]

Cable-icious

Although I’ve always loved cables, I was very surprised when I found out that I’ve actually been using it so often the past couple of months. It’s like cables have taken over my life! Not that that’s a bad thing, of course, but it does make me very grateful that I learned how to cable [...]

Spring Knitting…

It’s going to be the end of me, I swear! Between a million birthdays from here until May (including my own), friends being pregnant, test knitting a pattern, doing a Cookie A. sock knit along, temperatures starting to rise (so I want to be outside more often than inside knitting) and the new issues of [...]