For some reason, May is a month with a lot of fiber arts related challenges going on. Just for fun, I will see how many of them I can participate in without making any serious effort. Me-Made-May has been around for a while, and is just a challenge to wear and share images of yourself… Continue reading A Challenging Month
One of my favorite things about knitting is that there’s always something new to learn. Someone’s always inventing something new or refining an existing technique or rediscovering an old technique or something. So if you want to, you can always be learning and growing. I don’t want to do that every day – sometimes you… Continue reading Always More Stuff to Learn
The Art of Landscape Knitting by Anne Le Brocq is an interesting knitting book that gives you knitting block or repeat patterns that represent different types of terrain or things you would see in nature. Le Brocq is a geographer as well as a knitter, so she has a unique insight into different types of… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: The Art of Landscape Knitting
Something I have struggled with over time that I think is common to many crafters is stash management. Once your crafting supplies exceeds a certain amount, you kind of need a way to organize them and know how to get to what you have. For a long time I used Ravelry’s stash feature. It is… Continue reading Stash Management
I recently hit a jackpot of older used knitting books, and am having great fun reading through them. A few of them I’m not sure I’m going to talk about here because they are pretty scarce and also pretty old. So I’m not sure you’ll be reading about the entire haul. But in any case,… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Used Book Trifecta
I’m back! This past week was my 29th wedding anniversary with my DH, and we celebrated by taking a few short trips around WI. More about that later though. In the course of our travels, we stopped at a yarn shop in Delavan WI, Needles ‘n Pins. This shop is kind of in the middle… Continue reading Needles ‘n Pins Yarn Shop
Traditional Knitting in North Russia is a kind of tough book to review. It is interesting and informative, on the one hand. But kind of frustrating on the other hand. It is self-published by the author, Catherine Maslova, and was pretty clearly written and published on a shoestring. The author is clearly very knowledgeable. She… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Traditional Knitting in North Russia
The Shetland Trader books by Gudrun Johnston are labors of love and her effort to preserve the knitting styles of a particular place and time. Specifically, the Shetland islands in the 1970 through a company her mother owned and ran, The Shetland Trader. Interestingly, Gudrun’s mom was not a knitter herself. She designed the motifs… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: The Shetland Trader Vol 3
DH and I went on a little trip to the nearby town of Sheboygan yesterday – more about the visit in general in a few days. While we were there, we went to the local yarn shop, The Last Sheepicorn! This is a newish shop, but is in a lovely space and has pretty nice… Continue reading The Last Sheepicorn – Yarn Shop Visit!
Quite A Yarn 