Holiday Stitches

This year I decided to split my holiday gifts between knitting and embroidery. I spent Christmas day working on this little project, which I’m very proud of.
This tattoos design is stitched onto the bicep of a store-bought shirt. The original project idea and design come from Embroidered Effects, but Sweetie did some tweaking to make [...]

A Lillie for Her Niece

Last spring, a close friend of mine wanted to learn how to knit. Her sister was expecting a baby girl, so she decided to knit a sweater for her future niece. She caught on very quickly, but eventually became frustrated with the project. She was going through a lot of big life changes, so it [...]

The view from my frosty window

We’ve got a bit of snow here in the Northland. So much snow, as a matter of fact, that Sweetie didn’t have to go in to work today–the store was closed. That put a kink in my top-secret knitting plans, but it also meant that I got my gift early!

That guy of mine sure knows [...]

Turquoise Laurel

This hat has been finished for weeks, but Sweetie and I have been in the midst of the end-of-semester madness and haven’t seen each other during the limited Northern daylight. No matter, though. We’re not celebrating the holidays with family until after New Year’s, so I have plenty of time to wrap this gift up [...]

I’m Not Stupid

There’s a point in every big writing project, normally towards the end of the process, where the writer thinks herself to be a complete idiot with absolutely nothing to say. I’m saying “the writer” and not “I” because this seems to be a pretty common experience. When I was a younger writer I would throw [...]

Doo Doot

Giftting

In past discussions, I’ve heard people disapprove of the use of the word “gifting,” stating that the word “giving” already exists and serves the same purpose. In response to this problem, I would like to propose a new word: “giftting.” I define this word as both (1) the knitting of gifts and (2) the giving [...]

Binge

I’ve heard that a major problem with certain types of dieting is that when you stray from the diet you often stray very thoroughly, indulging in quite a bit that you shouldn’t.
My crafting diet has been circumstantial, not intentional, but I’m afraid that I’ve indulged in a knitting binge.
Last weekend’s knitting binge was about rewarding [...]

Twin Cities Crawl

It’s been such an odd week that I haven’t had a chance to tell you about my trip to the Twin Cities last weekend. It was definitely part yarn crawl, but we crawled to lots of other exciting places too!
Our first stop was Continental Clay, where Sweetie got  some new ceramics tools and we loaded [...]

Well, it wasn’t Rhinebeck…

The rest of the knit-blogosphere may be writing about their woolie adventures at Rhinebeck, but I’m here to tell you about the amazing time that I had at the Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric!
Really.
It was fun.
You don’t believe me, do you?
Look at it like this: Rhinebeck, NY is the UMTC campus, the fiber-celebrities are prominent rhetoric [...]