As I mentioned last month, my DH got me a tea-of-the-month club subscription from Harney & Sons for Christmas last year. Yesterday I got my first regular shipment! I did have concerns as to whether tea was going to be coming in huge shipments such that I would not be able to drink it all.… Continue reading OT: Tea for Two – the January Shipment
Today a bunch of things got started but none of it looks like much yet 🙂 More on these topics in the next couple of days!
I didn’t have a lot of knitting time today, as I had to get some chores done, and we had a few more errands to run, but I did get a little time in on the sample gansey, aka Dolores’ gansey. One of the features of ganseys is adding the wearer’s initials on the bottom… Continue reading Sample Gansey Progress
Earlier this week, I told you about the motif designing exercise I needed to do as part of the Kate Davies Knitting Season thing. It took pretending I had an actual deadline and stressing myself out about it, but I finally got the assignment done! I wound up doing two motifs because I couldn’t narrow… Continue reading A Hex on Your Motifs
I finally started something! It’s been a couple days of spinning my wheels and not quite getting anything new started, but I finally got something going. That something is the little sampler exercise for the full size gansey I’m planning. I am working my way through making a gansey based on the lessons in Beth… Continue reading Gansey Sampler
I haven’t had a lot of knitting time this week – general craziness at work and at home is mostly keeping me busy, and designing a motif for Knitting Seasons is taking up the rest of my time. But I have been getting a little work in on my Find Your Fade shawl. I’m at… Continue reading Fade Progress
This past Sunday we got our first creativity assignment for Kate Davies Knitting Season club, which involves creating our own motif. I am taking my inspiration for this assignment from eastern Pennsylvania, my point of origin. For a while now, I have thought that some of the imagery from hex signs and related folk art… Continue reading Creativity starting…Now!
Whew! Today was a day of regrouping. I frogged the trim and front of Schooner, and am reevaluating whether I am going to use the yarn for an entirely different project, or try to rejigger that one. If it’s going to an entirely different pattern, I will frog the back as well. We shall see.… Continue reading Shake It Off
So. Schooner. Tried it on this morning, as I have a tiny little bit of finishing left to do, and I was getting pretty excited to have it to wear later this week. Not. Flattering. Not a little not flattering. Very, very much not flattering. This is tremendously disappointing, as I could really use it… Continue reading Schooner to the Frog Pond
Quite A Yarn 