Adventures of a Stashaholic

My good friend Kathleen has expressed concern and dismay over the fact that there has been nothing witty or exciting on ye olde blog lately. I can only blame it on three things: 1. The cursed heat and humidity just makes me want to sleep. I have asthma and this weather makes it a killer […]

I’m starting to think I’ve really ticked off the Knitting Gods. Yesterday I had the equivalent of a yellow card in soccer. I’d decreased on the wrong side of the cable and had to frog 8″ of the front of my sweater. I was so ticked I didn’t take a picture. So, I frogged it […]

Well, despite having to re-write every line of the pattern by hand – something to do with instructions like – reverse shaping from back (which has in turn reversed shaping from another part of the pattern) I am making progress on my sweater.   I block everything now before I sew it together. I never used […]

I finished my wire necklace today. It doesn’t show well in the photograph, but the colours are beautiful together. It’s a bit wobbly in parts, but I’m pleased anyway. I like the way the copper and the green work together. I’ve got a spool of red, so now I’ll try red and green. I might […]

Like my friend Pirkko, I promise not to do a stitch by stitch recap, but I thought I’d post a day 1 progress report. I was going to do it in the Nova Cotton Tie Dye, but I didn’t like the drape of the swatch for this particular project, so instead I dug into my stash […]