I used to have about 4 sets of needles, roughly. I had bought a pair here and there when I started a new project. I don’t have a whole lot of money so I can only really start new projects when I have the money to buy materials. Don’t feel too bad for me though, [...]

OK so that was the best name I could find (given me by a LibriVox volunteer). As you can see I finally finished my symmetrical kerchief. This one is much better, and I’m loving it. It was a really quick knit, and I want to make several more! I wrote up a pattern for this to [...]

I decided to make up my own pattern to use the orange/gold laceweight yarn that I dyed a week or so ago. I wanted a cooler way to hold my hair back than just a bandana, so I decided to knit one. I randomly thought up a lace pattern (YO, K, K2TOG, YO, K2TOG), and [...]

So I watched a little video over at KnittingHelp.com explaining how to wind a center-pull ball. I’ve tried it and it works, and has been really helpful with a new project. I’m using both ends of the yarn, so I have one ball with one strand coming out the center and the other from the [...]

I’m starting another new project, which I really shouldn’t. I  think I have like 6 or 7 projects going right now. I didn’t even know I had that many needles!! I guess the advantage of being poor and unable to buy a lot of new knitting stuff means that I’m limited to the amount of [...]

Today I went to a local store that has a lot of locally hand-made items. Actually, that’s all you can find there. I found this beautifully soft alpaca yarn, and some alpaca roving that comes from a local farm. Whoo boy the stuff was expensive. I have my eyes on that roving, as I need [...]

Forget knitting in public, it’s for silly people anyway. I don’t need to show off my pride of this craft! OK, so I forgot OK? I knew I’d forget though. I’m one of the most absent-minded people, and I know it. I knit in public quite often anyways, does that make up for it?

I’ve been wanting to dye yarn since I started knitting, so recently with some extra money I had I bought some acid dyes. I only had one cone of lace weight white yarn, so I decided to experiment on that. I wish I had more yarn to experiment on, but I suppose I can wait [...]

I’m making some cotton dish cloths to send with a wedding gift for a friend (I hope she doesn’t read this blog ). This is the first time I’ve ever worked with cotton, and I’m finding that I really like it. It isn’t quite as nice to knit with as say, merino wool. It [...]