Fingerless Gloves
I've been looking forward to finishing the Fingerless Gloves from the book I'll be reviewing in a few days. I had a great time knitting them, in part because the author has a really neat way of guiding you through the design process. Here's [...]
Confessions of a Reluctant Picker
I recently took a class in Continental knitting. Having learned the English method, I was jealous of the speedy, smooth stitching my Continental friends were doing. I was determined to change my throwing ways to picking. So, I learned the Continental style like five [...]
Fingerless Mitts Swatch
Remember that picture of the yarns as seen through the Teleidoscope? You don't?? Ok, to refresh your memory here it is: Here are how the colors came together in the actual swatch: The swatch is my launching point for making fingerless gloves from a book I'll [...]
Nifty Gizmo
What do kaleidoscopes and knitting have to do with each other? I've come to find out that the beautiful patterns we all enjoyed as kids looking through kaleidoscopes and the yarn colors we use as knitters today come together through a nifty gizmo that [...]
Ugly Hat Public Debut
The SLO Knitters Guild presentation went great. (And no, SLO doesn't indicate we're so backward we can't spell "slow" - it stands for San Luis Obispo!) Adrienne and I were happy to meet new knitting friends and have the opportunity to share about our [...]
Meet Ugly Hats in Person!
You may remember my ugly hat from the TKGA Hand Knitters program. Adrienne and I will be giving a presentation about Level I of the Hand Knitters program, so you'll get to meet both our hats in person! Oh, what an opportunity! We will be [...]
Koolhaas Hat
As I knitted Jared Flood's Koolhaas Hat I wanted to break out into all sorts of Discovery Channel-like descriptions..."A Marvel of Modern Engineering"... "Structural Design at its Best"... One of my favorite things about making Koolhaas was getting to the top. As I arrived at the decreases that shape [...]