With fall knitting season bringing thoughts of pumpkins and mittens to the minds of knitters everywhere, I thought I’d play around with yarn possibilities for two of my favourite patterns. Imagine the Thotful Spot set (Hat & Hand Warmers) in the sophisticated autumnal…
It was time to do a bit of organizing before the flurry of fall crafting and gift making. This fall is going to be stuffed full of non-crafting things, but I also want to be making a million things. Step…
I knew I wanted to pick something neutral as a base so that I could let the voting excite me with the choice of the brighter/more playful colours. I went through the Wollmeise website colours (approximately 1, 111 of them,…
I’ve got a little spring fever. I can’t seem to settle down on one plan. I’ve been winding yarn. Plastering stitch dictionaries with sticky notes. Winding more yarn. Digging out another stitch dictionary. I don’t know what is coming…
A little bit of winding yarn. A little bit of planning. A lot of joy coming for my days in April!
Want to join me in an informal KAL? I’m going to be knitting another Pomball:Zig since I want to show you some tips and tricks about pomball hats and colourwork. (And I want my family to have a version of the hat they’re…
Norah George Yarns posted about a Hogwarts House Crest sock yarn club on Instagram. I mentioned it to my sister. Next thing I knew we were talking about how many Canadian dollars equalled a pound. (Thankfully that was before the…
We went yarn shopping in Toronto, of course. My husband Rainer makes a point of going and picking up yarn treats for me even when he travels alone. To say that he’s a great non-knitter to shop with is to…
It’s an overcast Friday and autumn is in full swing. Where I live we’ve passed the Glorious Autumn phase and are into the Bare Branches and Steely Clouds stage, but I want to bring the glory forward as much as…
Playing around with greys this month has been a lot of fun, and it’s impossible not to find amazing grey yarns add to my Glorious Greys board on Pinterest. The colour grey is probably my favourite colour for yarn pictures…