Best wishes for a wonderful 2020!

Since all of my “must do” projects for 2019 are finished, I spent part of today getting my 2020 project bin squared away and prepping the first two projects of next year. The yarn is wound, patterns printed out, and needles and other tools in the project bags. But then I thought about what to… Continue reading Surprise Random Project!

How was everyone’s Christmas? Or December Wednesday, if you do not do Christmas? I had a pretty nice one. DH and I opened our gifts to each other Christmas Eve, as that is his family’s tradition. He got me some self-striping sock yarn in the Wonder Woman colorway from Turtlepurl yarn, and a very cool… Continue reading A Very Knitty Christmas

We are finally getting some snow here again – just in time for Christmas! Also, saw this on my way home from work today!

This is somewhat late in the day, but hope everyone had either a Happy Thanksgiving or a very good Thursday. Or both!

I didn’t get much knitting in today at all – just a few rows on my Perfect Blend shawl at lunch and during a phone meeting at work today. This evening was entirely taken up with a different kind of project – prepping to paint. We are going to paint our upstairs bathroom, and also… Continue reading Other Kind of Project

For those in the US, happy Independence Day! For everyone else, have a wonderful Thursday 🙂

Another installment in my extremely occasional series about felting wool and knitting on purpose. This time, I wondered if already felted yarn could felt as fabric at all. The yarn in question is the Schoppel Gradient I had left over from making the tuck stitch cowl from last month’s Boost Your Knitting. Schoppel Gradient is… Continue reading I Felt a Curiosity 3