Ixchel progresses! It’s coming along pretty well, and I’m enjoying watching the colors reveal themselves! There are a lot of repeats of smallish patterns between the big central ones on the front and back, so it’s just interesting enough to keep me out of trouble 🙂 It is moving along pretty quickly, too!
Ixchel is coming along nicely – will do an update in a day or two when there’s enough progress to show up 🙂 In the meantime, I wanted to share how I organize my yarn stash. I have felt a little weird talking about this, because I don’t know that it’s of interest to anyone. … Continue reading Stash Management
As yet more proof that I can be thrown off my plan by almost anything, this week I started knitting the Ixchel (apparently pronounced ee-SHELL), a pattern that did not exist in my world up until a month ago or so. This in spite of having kits in my possession for up to three years… Continue reading Ixchel!
Before I stop going on about VK Live in San Francisco, I did want to tell you about the two other classes I took. Saturday morning was Color Interaction in Fair Isle, which was taught by Mary Jane Mucklestone. She gave us each 6 skeins of Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift (there was a materials fee for… Continue reading VK Live 3 – Last Post on This, I Swear
In addition to the classes and the pervasive knittiness in the air, the other great thing about this event was the shopping. The vendor room was BIG – a whole grand ballroom – and the list of vendors was 2 double-column pages long. So much yarn! Of course, not every shop was going to be… Continue reading VK Live 2 – The Shoppening
I interrupt my story about VK Live – will get back to that tomorrow. I finished my Gray Cardigan! It fit great and exactly what I wanted. It will work great with my wardrobe, and is basically perfect. Sigh! So happy! The yarn is Ironstone Warehouse Flake Cotton, which as far as I know is… Continue reading Gray Cardigan is Done!
Just got back from Vogue Knitting Live in San Francisco! Mom and I went for three days (and a day of travel on each end of that) and had a great knitty time! There was so much going on, I’m going to do a couple of posts on this trip. Too much to write in… Continue reading VK Live! Part 1
We had a moose in our yard this evening! Here he is… I acknowledge that this is yet another blog post on my knitting blog that has no knitting. If it helps, I was knitting when I caught sight of him 🙂 But it was so cool to see him this close, and wanted to… Continue reading Moose!
I don’t think I’ve ever talked about what a typical Saturday out and about looks like for me. But a few weekends of sticking close to the house made me realize again how fun it it is to get out in Anchorage and do our “errands”. We started downtown, as my Mom wanted to pick… Continue reading Out and About Weekend
Quite A Yarn 