I’m one of those odd people who buys an accessory and builds an outfit around it rather than starting off with a dress. Last month I picked up this amazing necklace from J.Crew. It sold out the day after I ordered it so I’m glad I got it!

I’m planning to wear it with either black [...]

Around Christmas, my aunt asked me to knit her a snood. A snood? Really? So I asked her to send me a picture of what she wanted and she sent me a link to a Juicy Couture “Snood” on Zappos. I would call this a convertible cowl. But I was able to use the dimensions [...]

I spent last night winding 1250 yards of yarn so I could get started on my Rock Island shawl.  I bought the pattern from Brooklyn Tweed as soon as it came out, but I’ve been busy with other projects.
I’m not usually into recreating exactly what the pattern shows, but damn I loved that “Grand Street [...]

A couple of instagram photos for you…
First, I just finished my Summer Flies Shawlette and I blocked it last night with my new blocking wires. Full post coming soon.

Today I wound 1250 yards of Lorna’s Laces Helen’s Lace and started my Rock Island Shawl. I kinda like shawl knitting.

One last Christmas gift post….
I forgot to post about this until I was looking through some photos! My dad likes to wear driving caps, so I decided he needed a knitted one too.  I don’t buy a lot of hat patterns because I can usually figure it out myself, but I’m glad I purchased the [...]

Look what I got in the mail yesterday? I’ve gotten a bit obsessed with shawl/lace knitting and decided to splurge!

I knit a little sweater for the baby girl my friends Nicole and Joe are expecting in March. Hopefully the sweater provides the incentive they need to pick the lovely name of Lorene for their child.

The pattern I used was the in threes:  a baby cardigan. It took a bunch of looking to find a [...]

My mom really loved the Aestlight shawl I knitted awhile ago, so I decided to knit her one for Christmas. This one is made with Malabrigo Sock yarn in Persia.
My mom is very sensitive to wool but I’ve seen her wearing this quite a few times! It blocked out a lot differently (ie bigger)  than [...]

My go to gift for my brother-in-laws are hats. That’s right! My sister got married in October and now I have 2 brothers-in-law.
First up is Kyle’s hat. I used the pattern Winter’s Coming and the light green is Knit Picks Cadena. The dark green is some scrap yarn.

I made up the pattern for Jeremy’s hat, [...]

I started knitting my Aestlight Shawl back in May while I was traveling in France and Switzerland. I never really got beyond the garter triangle and it lingered all summer.

Recently I got some inspiration to finish up old projects and I managed to knock out the rest of this shawl pretty quickly.
It did take me [...]