Silhouette of a black cat with it's paw on a purple ball of yarn. The text 'Adventures of a Stashaholic' is in green and purple

Birthday Ramblings

Today is my 40th birthday. I have learnt a lot in life, mostly by screwing up experiencing learning opportunities. I thought I’d take a moment to share these with you. The minute you say that you always knit to gauge, you won’t. When you think you have yarn in your stash that will work with […]

Run don’t walk!

I have a very big day coming up on Thursday (tune in then to find out why), so lately I’ve been treating myself. I’ve signed up for a series of classes at Lettuce Knit, bought patterns from Elann, but most importantly bought twin set of books that arrived today. My favourite books to buy are […]

Love at first site

I love love love this sweater from Knitty.com. I was too lazy cheap broke frugal to go all the way downtown to Romni, so instead I went stash diving and came up with what I think is just about enough yarn…not 100% sure if I have enough because a lot of it is in odds […]

Help us Help our Soldiers

As regular readers of this blog know, I’m a devoted member of Heartmade Blessings. Part of this charity is to do afghans (called comfortghans) for the families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. We’ve just started doing them for Canadian soldiers, and really need donated squares. We’re looking for cherry red and/or white […]