Sure, I’m knitting. But look at what the green things are doing. Virginia has been approaching spring for some time. Today she got serious. Today, it almost reached 70 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s warm. That’s gardening season. Flowers are doing their best to break out all over. I have mini iris, daffodils, croci, and snowdrops popping […]

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 […]

Friday night + Fourth Season of Oz on DVD + bag o’beads = Stitch markers. (I’m afraid the fellah will never quite feel comfortable with my fascination for prison movies. These new markers needs must comfort my strange mind.) I got some great lampwork beads from a friend of a friend this summer in exchange […]

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 […]

I spent last week in an XML intro class at Learning Tree. Which means I spent last week cooped up in a room with 20 other people with long breaks that weren’t quite long enough to leave for lunch. Which means I knitted like mad day in and day out for four days. I finished […]

I got what I thought was a feather and fan pattern on the web and started knitting up the scarf for Tchula, but there was no feather and fan. There was only a not-particularly-interesting lace staring up at me, mocking me. And in mohair, no less, which is not fond of the frogging. So I […]

Everyone said I would love them. That they would help me knit faster, that they were kind to yarn, that they were light and strong and would last forever. I hate addi turbos. I do. I really can’t stand them. I knew I would never like them because they looked so cold in the package, […]