Category: knitting
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TBT: My Mother’s Darning Eggs
My mother is a retired seamstress (in that she no longer takes customers, but will still help me with projects) and was often offered sewing-related items by her customers. She’s also the only daughter of a seamstress, who is the daughter of a seamstress, who is … well, you get the idea, and all the…
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This Is My Heart
Once upon I time, I swore I would never, ever offer a knitting pattern for free anymore ever again. Things change: Charlottesville happened. In the aftermath in my travels on social media, I came across a page on Facebook called Hearts for Cville that was soliciting knit and crocheted hearts to hang all over Charlottesville for anyone…
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The Week September 4-10
Last week: Decide what’s next for Aranami/Imanara. The choices: Work the final row (different from regular rows) in the bright colored yarn. The final stripe would be 1/2 a row taller than all the other stripes. Work another stripe of the dull colored yarn, with the final row being part of the stripe. All stripes would…
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The Week August 28-September 3
Last week: Take Henry to load his locker on Tuesday, get him ready for the 1st day of school Thursday. The first day of school went swimmingly. Help Ethan pack and move him in to JMU on Wednesday. My husband ended up taking him (long story as to why, but Ethan managed to stir up…
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lol Friday: Woman, Marionette, Squirrel
I saw a tweet this morning and was instantly enamored: I would now like a marionette of myself to feed squirrels and bunnies and other small animals, and I also wouldn’t mind having a movable mini-me to knit for. Just imagine how quickly FOs would fly of my needle for mini-Mandy/mini-madgeface! Think of all the…
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TBT: Hero
I didn’t know tape measures were such a bother! The only thing missing from these needles are the capes that will make them super. 🙂
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Knit Together Project
Melissa over at Knitting the Stash started the Knit Together project in late July and I signed up pretty quickly as a veteran of group blanket projects. All the details are on Melissa’s blog, but essentially it’s a DPN relay: each knitter receives the DPNs (symbolically or actually), makes an 8″x8″ afghan square using meaningful…
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The Week August 21-27
Last week: Start chewing soft food. I ate Triscuits, my current food obsession, so I’m pretty much back to all-normal food. Hurray! Get Ethan, middle son, ready to go to his first year of college 8/23. He’s not ready, physically packing-wise or mentally. We should have let him take a gap year – he’s not…
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LOL Friday: Yeti vs. Godzilla
You may wonder how this is fiber or knitting or crochet or yarn related (I mean, I’m trying to keep my posts topical to that, right?) but you’ll understand when you see the Yeti’s first close up. Please enjoy the rest of this ever so slightly political and moral story, though you may be laughing…
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TBT: Roman Dodecahedron
I’m reading Mary C Beaudry’s Findings – The Material Culture of Needlework and Sewing, which is a resource for archeologists to identify and contextualize findings of sewing and needlework. It’s a fascinating book, it’s everything I wished Big Cotton was (don’t waste your money on Big Cotton – it’s sensationalized & full of innaccuracy; I’ll…
Little Golden Notebook 