Although I’ve been participating in Surmount the Stash all year and have been fairly good about avoiding new yarn purchases, the siren song of my favorite local yarn shop, Knitty City, began calling to me last night. The start of my yarn craving was receiving an email update about another local yarn shop that is closing … Read more
As we move towards the fall in the U.S., more and more communities have been organizing yarn crawls, where shoppers can go from one local yarn shop to another on a designated series of days for a fun, yarny adventure. If you’ve been to a yarn crawl before, you may wonder who was working behind … Read more
This month seemed to go by in a blur with all that was happening at work and home, so I honestly have no idea how I did with stash this month! Let’s see… My accomplishments I made a Bruges lace scarf with a skein of super cool stash yarn. I made a bathroom rug with … Read more
I’ve been pretty excited about my first Bruges lace design since I developed it and made a sample last weekend. I actually started a second version yesterday so I could take some tutorial pictures to include with the pattern. It’s being tested on Ravelry as we speak! I’m making this version with Austermann Step, a … Read more
My first pair of knit socks seem to be drama queens. Not only did they demand to be restarted several times for various reasons, but then they broke this perfectly good bamboo needles after just one day of use. I bought these on Wednesday night after work because the small sized metal needles were really … Read more