The needles keep on clicking in these parts, despite the little bit of silence I’ve shown in the past ten days.
I did get that swatch done last week, as planned, and started the project. It’s a fun cardigan/vest project that is worked sideways
using Cascade Superwash 220 Quatro, in “Brown Bear”. It doesn’t look [...]
I sit here, in my spare bedroom, working on the computer to create a post I’ve had lodged in my head for over a week. In the background there’s the gentle swoosh swoosh of the dishwasher, cleaning the evening’s dirties (along with a few from the past several days) while soft jazz plays in [...]
Yes, I actually finish things
That’s my version of the “Spring Baby Cardigan” by Kristen TenDyke (patterns available at the shop, of course). I made our model out of Classic Elite Classic Silk (the yarn used in the design), as it falls in the perfect gauge of five sts/inch. Sized from newborn to [...]
Sure, there’s been tons going on in my life, and some of it even falls into the “fiber arts” part of my world. I’m always knitting something (mostly shop models), but my knitting time has been curtailed by my gym time. As chronicled over at my personal blog, I joined a health club [...]
Where did the past month go? I’ll be back in a couple days (Tuesday at the latest) to catch up a little bit, but there’s been much progress and stuff going on in my life (most of the personal stuff is chronicled over here on my personal blog), but there’s also been fiber and [...]
There’s a new project that’s taking ThreadBear by storm. It’s the Omega Wrap by Chris Bylsma, and it’s also the topic for a fun Stash Bash! workshop we’re doing all day on Saturday, April 10th (cost is just $15, and that’s basically to cover your lunch and snacks, provided by me from my wonderous [...]
Well, maybe not on Monday, as all I really did today was go to my weekly counseling session, work all day at the shop, and then come home and chill on the couch for awhile. I’ve pulled myself off of said furniture because I cannot stand any more of “Kell on Earth” (I tried [...]
One thing I always say is that I’m not going to get caught up in the whole “MUST…….KNIT…..FOR……CHRISTMAS” nonsense. I see too many customers at the shop freaking out about hitting specific deadlines for the holidays and really losing their sh#t about being behind schedule.
And low and behold, this year I took [...]
I’ve had a busy couple of weeks in these parts, between my parents visiting for Thanksgiving (they stayed a week–it was an amazing visit and I was sad to see them leave, even after that duration), my continuing to settle into my new place, and the goings-on at ThreadBear. It’s been fun getting settled [...]
I have much to be thankful for, but since I’m trying to “keep it light” over here, I’ll recap that over at my personal blog. Suffice to say that I’m looking forward to an amazing year in 2010, as the latter months of 2009 have been months of change–lots of good change.
Speaking of [...]