Anything over and done gets its day in the sun.
This is everybody’s favorite verse, I think. Eddie Izzard certainly thinks so. (a bit of swearing in that link, be aware of who’s in the room before you click.) FIIIIIIIIVE GOOOOOLD RIIIIIIINGS!!! Right? Anyway, today the rings are around heads, and have tops, because they are hats. And I’m celebrating with a free pattern, so … More Five More Hats!!!!
Explaining a tradition is like explaining a joke. You have to do it once in a while, for the uninitiated, but really, the explanation serves you more the next time you hear it and can laugh without having to discuss it. This twelve days of Christmas knitting is a little like that. I have loved … More Three Cousin Cowls
Hello Folks! It’s hard to believe this is the fifth Christmas since I started this blog. It has become our tradition to celebrate with a series of posts about all the projects we’ve been secretly working away on as presents, themed after the 12 days of Christmas. More on the subject later, when I’ve dug myself out … More One Sweater Softly
Two Christmases ago, I made my beloved husband a pair of felted slippers. He loved them with an enduring passion. They went on his feet every time he came home and it was even somewhat cold. They went in his knitting bag when he was on the go. My husband loves having warm feet, and … More Don’t Do This.
Remember this guy? I’ve had a bad habit lately of forgetting to blog about things until they are finished. I don’t want this blog to be all just like, “look at this cool thing I made!” That’s cool and all, but the majority of my time is spent on, well, unfinished stuff. Stuff in … More Every Inch of Purple
Happy new year, liturgists! Today is Advent 1, which means it’s the first day of the 2014 Christian year. Here we start remembering, celebrating, and participating in the story of Jesus all over again. To celebrate, I’m reducing the price of the Liturgical Year Pattern Series to $40. It began two years ago today; … More Seasonal Socks
As I described before, it was rather difficult to explain how the beautiful (and very large) strip of mosaic knitting I was working on was going to end up being a bag. It is finished now, and you can judge for yourself whether or not I in fact succeeded in making a bag. The instructions … More Bag’s End
At the tender age of 8 months, Nomeykins is not a very well-traveled person. Outside her native state, she’s really only visited Maryland (unless you count West Virginia, the only parts of which she has visited outside of a car being Sheetzs). She can only imagine fondly when we describe to her such far-off climes … More Southwestern Socktoberfest
Some impulses ought not be resisted. Like, when you realize you accidentally made your baby a Jedi dress, deciding three days before halloween to make her a Princess Leia hat. I think of this as an alternate universe Leia – one in which Luke is the one who grows up a senator’s child, and Leia … More The Force Is Strong with This One…
This is a story that started over three years ago. A grown-up daughter was moving away from near her mummy, and the mummy was rather desperate to stay connected. They were both knitters, so they came up with a project. The Project. The Sweater, to be exact: The Oregon Autumn cardigan by Alice Starmore (Published … More The Sweater Is Done
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