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New Video – Binding Off in Pattern
I love casting on and binding off in pattern. Especially with ribbing, it can lend a nice subtle edge. I find this technique so useful, I've made a new video to match the previous one about casting on in pattern. If you don't already, [...]
Cambria Workshop
I was lucky enough to go the the Best Workshop Ever this weekend. Kris and Oz, owners of the fantastic Ball & Skein & More in Cambria, California, combined their talents as crazy-fun hosts with Gwen Bortner's excellent instruction style. The result? An intensive [...]
Starting Ishbel
I'm finally getting the chance to start a pattern I've been wanting to try for the longest time. Ishbel is a beautiful shawl design by Ysolda Teague. I'm making the smaller version, out of Swans Island fingering weight yarn. Every so often I get [...]
Knitting Evenly App
If you read my blog, you know that I recently knit a February Lady Sweater in a ridiculously short amount of time. I garter stitched my way into bleary-eyed mental exhaustion. So when I got to the instruction that called for working 41 increases [...]
February Lady Sweater
During ten days of knitting madness, I made the February Lady Sweater, designed by the talented Pamela Wynne. I'd wanted to make it for the longest time, and decided it simply had to be worn at TNNA. I used 6 skeins of Lorna's Laces Shepherd [...]
Genographic Project – Part 1: My DNA Isolation!
Steve got us the coolest gifts for Christmas. They're kits that allows us to participate in National Geographic's Genographic Project. As the site explains, "Where do you really come from? And how did you get to where you live today? DNA studies suggest that all humans today [...]