A week from now, I’ll be in Vegas. My husband and I are flying down with my brother and his wife to spend a weekend securing our financial futures and also to take in a show. More specifically, this show. I have to say, I’m not overly excited by the show, but I am looking [...]
While I swore never to knit to a deadline again, I’m knee deep in it. That’s what I get for swearing.
However…it’s going fairly well. This is a very early photo (I’m much farther along now) and I have about 1/3 left to go. I need to have it finished for July 21st for my [...]
How about 500 different things?
Found this on a Ravelry post…and didn’t want to lose it!
This will be my last new cast on for some time. I swear.
Well, at least until something else comes off the needles.
But this, this is for my husband. It’s not quite the knitted jacket he admired in a gift shop last New Year’s, but I think he’ll like it anyway - the “concept”, a [...]
I’m giving lace a shot — and I quite like it. I’m relying entirely on the notion that it will look a lot better when blocked (because it’s surely not looking like much now!), but I’m enjoying the knit. It’s also a case of semi-stealth knitting — I don’t work on it while Mom’s around, [...]
I have been married for a little over 25 years. That I’ve done anything for twenty five years (!) makes me shake my head in disbelief, but this has definitely been worth it. My husband is simply a decent and fine person and I consider myself blessed to have him as my best friend and [...]
So I started a cardigan for myself - “Sandy Cardigan” from Big Girl Knits (because, you know, I’m a big girl now). Anyway…I’m using my accidental purchase from eBay - Noro Kureyon, which I’m loving working with. However….I’m having a problem with gauge, or I think I am. The cardigan works up with four panels [...]
I’m playing hooky today (at my mother’s urging no less!) and heading to the US for a day of yarn store finding and gambling. She tells me there’s a new shop in Lynden….I think she’s just saying that to get me to the casino.
I’ll report my findings (and losses…and purchases?) later.
I drove over to Chilliwack today to the first meeting of the Upper Fraser Valley Knitting Club (that name is subject to change). Marlene has done a lot of work organizing the group and it was fun to be in a room with a lot of other knitters. I may have been the only one [...]
The greater share of my yarn stash has come from other sources. it is a combination of my own, plus my mother’s, my grandmother’s and my mother-in-laws. By some standards, it’s not even a lot. And a lot of it is bargain store acrylics — but most of it is quite nice, and certainly it’s [...]
