Happy Weekending, everyone! It’s an exciting time: early orders of Migraineur have arrived in knitters’ hands, the KAL in my Ravelry group is slowly building steam, and we even have our first FO! (Well done Maria!) In a few days, I should finally have my author copies in hand too. I finished the handspun main … More Behind the Book: Milarrochy Tweed Yarn
Book launch day came and went, and I survived! And you lovelies started to actually buy it! Holy smokes! I’m so thankful. If you haven’t gotten a chance yet, of course I’m going to include the ordering info up front! Buy Migraineur softcover book on Amazon.ca (also available on Amazon.com and other marketplaces)If you want a complimentary ebook with your … More Stacks of Waves
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you’ve had a splendid celebration. Don’t forget that it lasts twelve days! I refuse to take my tree down before Epiphany! I have one more finishing party left for 2024. I’ve been putting off taking pictures of this one, because winter (read: indoor) sweater pictures never turn … More Finishing Party: Handspun Jethro
In this series of posts, I’m sharing about some big FOs that came off the needles in the last couple of months. Today, I’m going to share about a project that followed me all along our summer of travel: The Goff Place Mystery KAL that was part of the KDD “Summer of Mystery” club. Step … More Finishing Party: Goff Mystery
Hey everyone! I’m here on the blog again, with some very belated posts about some big finishes I’ve had over the last couple of months. I’ve shared about some of these finishes on The Wool Circle, but I still find value in collecting my pictures and thoughts and celebrating these big projects with a post … More Finishing Party: Port Charlotte
Today’s sweater starts with a curiousity about the world of neon. Super-bright colours have been a trend for a while now, and last year my curiousity about these colours reached a high point. During the summer of 2023, when visiting Magpie Yarns with my mom, I treated myself to a copy of Aimee Gilee’s book, … More Wervel
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
So for the Spinner’s Book of Yarn Designs book study we’re doing over at Wool n’ Spinning, we’re offering two ways to spin along as we go through the book. You can, of course, go through the book and spin sample by sample. But not everyone is in a sampling place, so we created “Track … More Capstone Sweater: Fiber and Prep
Here it is, already the last day of January! I have been hard at work, but… mostly with stuff I can’t show you. It’s been a massive month of finishing and testing new designs, and working ahead on cool stuff for the Wool Circle. The Wool Circle episodes, if you’re interested, were an initial discussion … More January 2024 Round-Up – Busy with Secrets
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