Forced blogging

OOOOOK, So, I seriously have to do something about this blogging slump I’m in. I toyed with the idea of giving it up altogether…, but I don’t want to risk losing touch with so many dear friends. Besides, every once in a while I want to say something.
Then, I told myself I’d just [...]

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Pass the wrinkle cream :o)

This one’s a keeper – I’m hiding it from the hubby )
Pattern:  Sideways Shortrow Watch cap (see last post, same pattern)
Yarn:  Noro Kureyon, color 178, one ball, plus about 2 yards of the 2nd.  (if you went straight by the pattern, you could get it in one ball)
Needles:  KnitPicks size 7
Modifications:  I apparently knit [...]

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Pinheads and hat stealers

Oh that hubby… don’t set a just-finished hat anywhere near him. He’s got some kind of “new knit hat”radar. He picks it up, says “ooh, this is a good one,” puts it on his head, and there it stays – it’s his now. Just ask Kaity – she’s lost many a [...]

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Layla says “Hi”

…because I really have nothing for ya. Well, that’s not true, I did buy some yarn! But first, Layla. Doesn’t she looks seriously stylin’ in her new Old Navy polo? She wanted pink, but green was all they had in XXS. I think she rocks the [...]

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Knitting for Charity

Yes! We are doing Christmas Knits for One At Time Ministries again this year! Thanks so much to the many of you who who have been asking. Below is the ministry, and details.

Would you like to knit something small, that would be of GREAT help?
My dearest friend, Marion, and her husband Ken [...]

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Lacy Kerchief Scarf

Pattern:  Lacy Kerchief Scarf, Interweave Knits, Holiday 2006
Yarn:  Cotton Ease, color: Lake  3+ skeins
Needles:  KnitPicks Harmony, size 8
Dimensions:  90 x 13 inches

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Pets Can’t Knit

Here’s Carmen, looking very innocent, but seriously thinking about walking all over my blocking Lacy Kerchief Scarf (IK Knits, 2006 Holiday Issue) and making little cat paw dents.   Really, this is about the only way she bothers my knitting – not much of a knitter, that cat.  She doesn’t really bother yarn, or WIPs, but [...]

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