I must interrupt the scarf knitting to bring you a hat. Apparently, my grandmother has misplaced her knitted cap and I have been called into action. I am really winging it - no swatch. Yup, you heard me. No. Swatch. I have no idea what my gauge is or for that matter what her hat […]

… you see cables?? I don’t know if it is the inconsistent thickness of the Manos or the variation in color, but the cables do not seem very distinct. However, I am unwillingly to start over with a new pattern or new yarn. I am stubborn. I am hopeful. I am determined. I really, really […]

It’s been a busy few days this week. Hubby and I drove down to my parents in Indiana late Monday. Tuesday was full with holiday grocery shopping, plus I had agreed to make lamb meatballs with a fragrent rosemary tomato sauce for dinner that night. I was forced to use veal instead, but it was […]

Yesterday, I went on an all day yarn crawl to LYS1, LYS2, and LYS3. My main goal was finding yarn for my scarfee for the Int’l Scarf Exchange. Of course, I came home with much more!! Counter clockwise from top left: Online Linie 85 color Smash, Heritage Handpaint Oxford color “Up North” and”Lake Charlevoix”, Noro Silk […]

I finished the other Karen’s scarf. (Both my MIL and SIL are named Karen. My SIL is the other Karen).
I love the way Trendsetter Viola Print and Crystal Palace Chenille combine to make a new color. I also noticed for the first time that the Viola seems to have created vertical stripes. Maybe because the […]

I haven’t knitted since tuesday!! My vision is blurry, my hands are shaky, and I am having a heard time hearing. Well, ok, I did knit one row of my Knitter’s Stash shawl. Just so I could show my mother-in-law why I had a long list of Muench Touch Me colors on my christmas list. […]

Currently I have 9 projects on needles, 5 in the wings, and 8 that require finishing. So, my loving husband is, of course, questioning the rationale of starting an online knitting journal. “Wouldn’t that take away valuable time that could be devoted to the completion creation of knitted things?”
I told him how this journal would […]