So I made the Fingerless Gloves Part Deux! This time with handspun and hand-dyed! Whoo hoo! Very exciting stuff here. Well, actually, the green was bought fleece, the multi I plyed with it is a Kool Aid test I did. I had JUST enough. Knit these simultaneously off a center-pull ball.The other thing to post is that I’d been trying to figure out how to hang up my spindles. I have no mantle and no space for an Ikea rack. But I did have a...
In the interest of full disclosure…
So…I’ve got to fess up publicly. While I am in the Knit Olympics, and I fully ascribe to all the rules (cast on when the torch is lit, be done when it’s doused) I can’t fully comply. It’s not like I’m on knitting steroids. It’s just that I started the Map of the World Afghan last year. I started it and I froze. I got just past South America on the first panel and that was it. I put it away. And that...
Knittyspin: Handy plying
I know…I know…as though everything on Knitty weren’t useful: Knittyspin: Handy plying.
About Time – a podcast for knitters
Just discovered About Time – a podcast for knitters. I’d been listening to Marie Irshad’s podcast KnitCast and Caroline’s FiberCast too for about a month, but I keep trolling. Something to listen to on the train.
super eggplant: no cupcake for me
There is a part of me attracted to the cupcake…super eggplant: no cupcake for me but there is also a part of me that’s terrified.The latter won.
Making a Drop Spindle
Making Judi…if I’m ever interested.


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