Hi and welcome, everyone, to the last day of 2025! Welcome especially to our newest subscribers, who may have migrated over here from Kate Davies’ blog, where she kindly posted her foreword for Migraineur. If you’re new to this blog, and you’d like to know a little more about me, let me direct you to … More 2025 In Review
It’s time for me to reveal the final results of a handspinning experiment that started right around three years ago, at the beginning of 2022. At that time, I started spinning for socks, intentionally and often. I played with colour, twist, and ply structure. Then, from June 2022 through February of 2023, I knit those … More Socks For Science: Results
You know, one day, I will finish something and post it on here, and it won’t have a super-long back story. Today is not that day. When I started spinning again, in January of 2017, I got sucked deep into the world of Instagram. Instagram is a world of marketing, and I was particularly sucked … More Solaris Vest
Happy New Year everyone! It’s the first day of a new year, but I’m not quite done looking back yet. You’ve maybe heard of a “Make 9” – an Instagram grid of 9 projects that you plan to make. I didn’t make one of those last year. But looking backwards instead of forwards, I decided … More Made 9 2023
I finished a few really pretty things last week! First I’ll show you the Shakerag Top, by Amy Christoffers. This was a design I had eyed since it came out a few years ago, since before the name of the publication it’s in was changed to “Modern Daily Knitting.” I thought it would be a … More Too Pretty to Wear
After that big Stash Toss post I did yesterday, I feel like this post should be really easy, right? We’ll see. The Fam Jam Assuming nothing else happens today, the kids will have been at school for a grand total of 9.5 days this month. Because we had car troubles, for Dooner, that was 4 … More February 2023 Round-up
When Rachel started talking about doing an accounting of her stash on the last episode of WnS, a little light went on in my brain. Ping! I was starting to feel that itch. Not of too much stash, actually, but of too many projects. I remember the last time I felt like this, about ten … More Stash Toss 2023
The next socks I’d like to share with you are the only pair that are not from yarn spun this year. I spun this lovely merino-silk braid into two yarns, back as part of the 51 yarns project I did from 2019-2020. I split it in half, and did one half as my “Default Yarn.” … More Socks on the Road: Hobbledehoy Merino-Silk
Merry Christmas! I’ve been behind the eight ball these last couple of weeks, and having a lot of fun into the bargain, so you’re hearing this update early Christmas morning. I know it’s not Epiphany yet, but I bring you: the three wise men. I have to admit: I’ve been looking forward to knitting the … More Knitivity: We Three Kings
The angel Gabriel has arrived on the scene! Our Nativity scene, that is. Every angel should have a halo, right? So I picked a fuzzy yarn to give his tunic some glow. This special yarn was spun from the coat of my friend’s white Husky, Styles. The stripe of green at the bottom is from … More Knitivity: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
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