The good news is that it’s finished!

The other good news is that I love it. Don’t ya love it?

The bad news is that it’s much too small for me. I used the wool it called for (Paton’s merino) and the needles (3.75mm) it called for. But instead of getting 22 stitches to […]

My peacock Cherry Tree Hill clapotis yarn arrived today from Sandra Singh, and it is gorgeous! I love it. It’s beautiful to look at and luxurious to touch. Everything in me wants me to cast on today, but I am saving it until all my Christmas knitting is finished. I might even wrap it […]

Never let it be said I didn’t make enough hats.

I’ve been so busy knitting I haven’t taken time to update my knitting blog lately. I must confess I’ve been scaring myself a bit with a compulsively maniacal approach to knitting. I’m currently on a hat binge.

I finished Mike’s birthday hat and he says he has become a chick magnet…the girls are all over him […]

I really don’t need another hobby, especially a good one, since there are already not enough hours in the day to do all the things I love doing. But it was such a good deal. I got it at the Spinners and Weavers show – it was the only loom for sale, and it was […]

Ever have one of those weeks where you should just keep your hands away from the knitting needles because you’re just making a mess, and every time you try to fix the mess you make it worse? I keep putting aside my projects as I mess them up, with the aim of taking them to […]

Mike’s hat is coming along…slowly. Between the twisted rib stitch and what now seems like very slender yarn (Paton’s Decor), this hat seems to be taking forever. I started on Sunday October 23. Okay, it’s only 3 days, it just feels longer. His birthday was yesterday, so it’s late. Still…it’s awfully nice…and he does hate […]

Mystical Creations has the most exquisitely coloured yarns. I yearn for clapotises (clapotti?) in several of their 76 shades of blue (I threw in a red for good measure. Feel free to chime in and vote for one. I’d also welcome input from anybody who has ever made a clapotis using mystical creations yarn. Were […]

I struggle perpetually with the curse of indecisiveness.

Last night I lay awake thinking about the clapotis I am going to knit. For those of you unfamiliar with the infamous clapotis, here is the original clapotis. But there are a thousand others, each different from all the others, because of the infinite fibers available from which […]