It is possible that the wonderful pen of the Yarn Harlot is more than a little responsible for our insanity.GO TEAM INSANITY!

Lordy, we are EVERYwhere. Take a look at this beta site at Knitting Olympics Frappr! to see us pinpointed all over the globe. Go to the state level.Shocking.And wonderful.

Well, I managed about a foot since we started. That’s not good.But it’s sure pretty.I also used my entire ball of blue. (Note the ruler, and you can see how far a ball of blue Tahki Donnegal Tweed will go with size 3.75mm needles.) This was not a surprise, but going into the basement, to find the box with the rest of the yarn…only to find no balls of blue…THAT was a surprise.Turns out, I hadn’t wound balls out of...

I am not doing NEARLY as well as the downhill USA men’s team when it comes to times. I think it’s become fairly clear as we begin the third day of the Knit Olympics that I have seriously overjudged my knitting speed–esp. cold-finger speed during a blizzard. Until and unless I can finish a panel completely in four days I won’t make it. And as you can see from the previous post pic of my starting point, and from the update...

Had to make myself a button.Then I went back to Stephanie’s site to check out the new stuff and found thisand now I am shamed by Sara’s awesome coolness.Of course, mine was Very Difficult to make (which makes it virtuous) as I had to start with iPhoto, then transfer the knitting pic to Word, then save that as a PDF jpg, then transfer that back to iPhoto where I could crop it and export it in the right format. So the fact that...

I got a free bag pattern from Mason Dixon Knitting. The good ladies there asked for pics of said bags to be sent to them. So I obliged:In my note I mentioned that I loved the pattern so much I was going to make all of my Xmas gifts RIGHT NOW with this pattern (…well…after the Olympics…).And then I got this back from Kay:I am really into the charcoals and grays–yours is fab. The ones in thepicture [on the web site] are...