Posted in knitting on 21.05.2008 | 4 Comments »
Knit lit: knit literature, “chick lit” novels written for knitters
Several weeks ago, I read Turtleknits’ review on three knit lit books. Inspired by her post, I went on the Ravelry discussion boards to see what knitters were saying about this book:
Many Ravellers made many positive comments about the book itself, I refrained from [...]
Posted in knitting on 19.05.2008 | No Comments »
Why wait for WWKiP Day to go out there and knit in public? Take a stroll over to Iveah Gardens and park yourself on a bench and knit…
Read about it here.
Posted in knitting on 18.05.2008 | 3 Comments »
At this point, I have used almost 2 balls of Silk Garden Lite…
The stitch markers are gone, thanks to YarnCat and egeria, who were at the City Center SnB, showed me the way to a stitch-marker less Clapotis construction.
Dropping the stitches were a little nerve racking at first, however, I’ve done three sets of purposeful [...]
Posted in knitting on 16.05.2008 | 1 Comment »
As I reported in a previous post…
I’m trying it again, so far so good…
Posted in knitting on 14.05.2008 | 1 Comment »
More breaking knitting news…
I am a Doctor Who fan, so I am following this story closely…
If you are on Ravelry, you can follow the discussion thread on the Who Knits? group regarding Mazzmatazz and the BBC. I love this blog post written by technollama
Posted in WIP, knitting on 14.05.2008 | 4 Comments »
I have tried unsuccessfully to convert my non-knitter friends to knitters, until last weekend.
I convinced my friend to accompany me on a weekend trip. It was going to be a two and a half hour bus ride to the North. In order to prepare for this bus ride, I bought a pair of lovely Brittany [...]
Posted in Canada, crochet on 07.05.2008 | 5 Comments »
I immediately called my mother after reading Yvonne’s post on family history. My mother use to crochet afgans, doilies, hats and even curtains back in the 1970’s. I wanted to know if she still had any of her crocheted items.
Since the Spouse was already in Canada at the time of the phone call [...]
Posted in knitting on 05.05.2008 | 3 Comments »
Pattern: Vog On
Yarn: It only took one ball of my souvenir yarn (Mistral by Sesia) from Naples
Posted in WIP, knitting on 03.05.2008 | No Comments »
I have received three baby announcements in the span of three weeks. That is one baby per week.
I started knitting a pair of bootees for baby Madeline Friday evening…
Several hours later, I have one half done…
Posted in WIP, knitting, yarn shops on 01.05.2008 | No Comments »
I have always wanted to knit myself a Clapotis, however, I find myself always starting to knit one until I lose my place in the pattern and the well intended wrap ends up in the frog pond.
A trip down to TiK and a lovely chat with Lisa & Jacqui, convinces me to try knitting the [...]
