Rarely do I take a long time agonizing over what to do for a particular project. Either I’m following a pattern, or I’m going off some inspiration from a picture I’ve seen or yarn I have. However, when the handknit is to be made for someone else and the yarn comes from my very own [...]

I had a few extra beads from when I went to the bead store so… I made another one. This time I did it a little differently. I used a metal DPN, glued some paper wrapped around the spot where I wanted the beads, and glued three beads over the paper. These things are so freakin’ [...]

So here are my experiences spinning Angora fur. As in most things that I’m excited about, I dove right in without much thought. I didn’t do any research online about fiber preparation, or if any was needed. I’d read some about angora, seen some videos of women plucking the rabbit in their lap and spinning [...]

A whole post devoted to nothing other than the recent acquisitions of stuff. More materials and tools to practice my craft. However, I promise it’ll be something more interesting than “I bought this yarn, and this yarn, and these needles, and these needles…” Everything I have to write about today is unique and exciting (for [...]

Today I spent some time with math trying to figure out how to do a toe-up heel flap. I had some idea of how I was going to do it, I just needed to determine the exact numbers. While fiddling on my break at work (bad idea…you have to go back too soon and get [...]

It didn’t take me very long to start and finish this one ounce of tencel/merino fiber. I think I started it a week or so ago when I completed this stuff… I haven’t been able to comfortably get more than one ounce on each of my spindles, so I’ve taken to splitting my four ounce lengths [...]

There are a lot of choices a knitter has to make these days. You can choose to knit a particular technique in the more traditional style, or take on whatever new ideas have been cooked up in the last several decades. It seems that now with an increase in the accessibility of information (the internet, [...]

I’m in one of my upswings in spinning, as always seems to happen every month or two. Since I finished whatever I was spinning on both my spindles, I started them both up with some fiber. One with something old (a difficult to spin but colorful wool), and the other with something new (wool and [...]

Forget whatever else I have on the needles right now. I cast-on for a new project a few nights ago, and I have been enamored by it. I placed quite a large order from WEBS a while ago, and the Malabrigo Lace I ordered was backordered. It’s been months, so I finally e-mailed to request [...]

When knitting a point-up shawl, it is not recommended to use math in order to figure out just how much you’ve completed. If you measure your width and get approximately 1/3 of the finished width, do not labor under the illusion that you’ve gotten a lot done. You haven’t. Wanna know how I know this? [...]