I was a girl scout roller derby girl for Halloween, so it only seems right that I move on to the boy scouts next.  I’m picturing a vintage Norman Rockwell type boy scout, with a big red neckerchief – not the anemic ones they wear now.  This was the inspiration for La Neckerchief – a [...]

I’ve had it in my head that I wanted to design a simple lacy wristwarmer/fingerless glove using some Malabrigo Silky Merino. However I’ve had a hard time coming up with the right lace pattern. Today I finally figured it out and knitted up a sample.  I need to write up the pattern so I can [...]

I’m in love with cowls right now. They are simple and easy to wear. Best of all they knit up quick. Here is the first in a series of quick and easy cowls. You can easily knit these up in a night or two and the patterns are easy to remember!

Pick a luxe super bulky [...]

It seems like all my posts lately have been cupcake related. This might lead you to believe that all I do is eat cupcakes but I have been crafting too!  It’s just a little easier to get photos of cupcakes than knitted items. Particularly now when it’s nearly dark when I get home and always [...]

Back in February 2008 I started knitting Eunny Jang’s Endpaper Mitts. I got the first glove done pretty quickly but the second one languished. I gave my sister the one mitt for Christmas with a promise to finish the other one right away. That never happened.
This summer my sister asked me if she was ever [...]

A box of yarn arrived the other day and I was eager to start knitting my Owls sweater. It took me about five tries to get my cast on right (I wasn’t focusing the first 4 times). This should have been a clue that this was not going to work out well. I used Knit [...]

I’ve had the Star Crossed Slouchy Hat in my Ravelry queue for awhile but I didn’t have any particularl plans to make it.  Then 2 things happened – the weather turned fall-like and it started popping up in everyone’s Ravelry activity stream. So I frogged my Shifting Sands scarf, which I had set aside after [...]

In the past week I’ve picked up some new yarn from Angelfire Studios and Quarter Stitch. I finally had time to enter them into my Ravelry Stash and take photos!
I plan to use the skein of Colinette Jitterbug to make myself some thin wristwarmers for work. My office can be freezing.
Both skeins of Outer are [...]