I have felted the second teal bag. It is entirely different from what I expected. And it is good. Rather than a column, it morphed into . . . well . . . roundness.  It’s like one of those egg baskets, except if this were full of eggs, it would be really really heavy. I […]

I finished the largest thing I’ve ever knit last night. It’s the second of two (eventually) felted bags knitted out of some Annabel Fox yarn that I got as a gift but didn’t want to wear. I know, I’m felting rare yarn. I forgot it was rare until the first bag was felted and the […]

This wiseguy gets it.  The Maus gets it.  What, you don’t get it? Wanna speed on the appearance of strange hats in your neighborhood? Mad hatter the first has one hell of a hat in her living room and another in the sneaky sneaky works, and a head full of amazing shapes blooming like flowers […]

I’ve been getting comfortable with my scary scary felting needles. I added a spiral to what will soon be the front pocket on my Constant Companion, and my name in ogham on its inner pocket. The spiral mimics the button on the bag, so I hope it looks good once I sew it on. I […]

This weekend, rather than nalbinding as I had planned, I ended up designing a couple of new objects. I made a felted box out of Noro Kureyon. Ok, nothing terribly difficult about knitting up or felting a small box, but the colors are lovely, and it holds a half dozen CDs, and comes up about […]

The Tinsmith show at Blackrock last night rocked. In a folky way, of course. For those of you who haven’t found the band yet, they’re a DC-metro area band who plays traditional Irish and English folk with some great jazzy and rock influences. Brooke Parkhurst, my friend and banjo teacher, sings and plays a variety […]

Last night I made the pocket for the Tuatha bag. Teal and grey spirals, to be felted. It was much less annoying than any other counted work I’ve done in the past. Now I must learn to chart so I can make more spirally goodness. The bag itself is progressing quickly. Several knitters met up […]

So, felted brownie hats rock. They rock so hard I might make another one right now. Ok, not right now, but maybe tonight. And witch hats are in the works. I’ll go from the short little nubbin of a brownie hat to a very tall witch hat, oh yes I will. Don’t try to stop […]

Hat sitter: And now, now, now I am in the third incarnation of the Brownie hat, and she is lovely.  Balanced, warm, soft, relatively thin so as to be wearable no matter the weather, even post-felt. And the hat is using far less yarn than I originally anticipated, so it may ultimately be joined by […]