Category: Knitting

Goodbye to the black hole

January 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

I don’t post much about knitting these days, although when I first started my blog that was one of my main topics. I’m making an exception today. Noro Silk Garden is known as a “rustic” yarn. It’s made of a combo of wool, silk and mohair, and a lot of people don’t care for it because it feels a bit […]

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Festival

April 22, 2018 Leave a Comment

I’m in the process of paring down my sizable stash of yarn — most of it is recorded in my Notebook on Ravelry, complete with photos I’ve taken of each yarn entry. I’ve always tended to choose yarn based on colors and soft textures. But I’ve also learned the hard way that balls of yarn full of gorgeous color combinations […]

Animals

P is for…

December 5, 2017 1 Comment

The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Needs to have at least 5 letters and start with P. Let’s see how creative you can we can be on this challenge. Have fun with this week’s challenge.

Knitting

WPC: Layered

September 23, 2017 3 Comments

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of September 20, 2017. This week, share with us a layered image of your own. The topic is wide open, as long as you focus on the interplay of depth, density, and texture (or just choose one of these elements if you’d like).

architecture

From under the weather

March 21, 2017 2 Comments

The theme this week for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is View from the Back, Bottom, or Underneath. You can take photos of anything as long as we are seeing the back, underneath or bottom. I have always found flower backs to be fascinating. The back of a statue instead of the typical front or side views. The tail lights of […]

Knitting

The Color Yellow

October 11, 2016 6 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is Yellows. This week the color is Yellows. You can show off photos you have taken of any yellow colors. Have tons fun with this challenge this week.

Knitting

One down, one to go

June 27, 2016 3 Comments

I shared in a previous post that I’ve been working away on the Ashton Shawlette, a free pattern by designer Dee O’Keefe, which I found thanks to Ravelry. I’m actually doing it twice over. Since I haven’t had a whole lot of luck knitting lace shawls, I wanted to make sure I wouldn’t come to grief again while using some special yarn. […]