Does this happen to you?

….you know you have somewhere to go, and you put together an outfit in your mind – one that that will be perfect for the occasion and is going to look great, and it’s going to be perfect so you don’t really even bother to see what else is clean, because this is “the outfit.”  [...]

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What?! – You mean I’m NOT a Russian princess?

Silly me. I continue to live a fantasy in my head that I somehow have serious secret glam potential…. or that my knits have the magic ability to transform me into movie-star glamour…
I don’t know, I’m not feelin’ the princess thing. Actually, my first thought when seeing myself in this was more [...]

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(((Hemlock Ring Blanket)))

Oh my gosh… I’m in love with this.
Get ready to look at a LOT of pictures!
This was a dream to knit… I never tired of it.  The Cascade Ecological Wool is one of my favorites.  So soft!
It blocked to 5 feet across!   This took me just slightly less than 2 weeks to knit.  [...]

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Short and Sweet

First…. how totally cool is this?!  This one’s mine, but you can get yourself one over at Scout’s!!
And…. good thing I didn’t promise myself I’d finish Cobblestone before starting my Hemlock Ring Blanket – because this beautiful blob of a blanket is about half done!

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A Perfect Knit?

Maybe.  If you ask me, these are as close to a perfect knit as I’ve found.
Each clog took one day, and one skein of Cascade 220 to knit.  I never knit ANYTHING in 1 day!
There’s also something magic, amazing, and just plain fun about taking a huge clown slipper, giving it 14 minutes in the [...]

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No More Rules

I remember spouting off, back when I first started knitting and blogging, about how I was a one-project-at-a-time gal. Yeah… well those days are gone. I currently have seven WIPs. I don’t even care. Go check out my Ravelry (knittogether) – they’re all there.
So, because I can no longer [...]

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