Category: crafting

  • It’s 2015! plus a quick sock heel tip

    There’s just a dusting of snow on the ground and the wind is howling past an outer window that’s frozen a bit open, but it’s bright and sunny, I have coffee, and it’s 2015! 2014 was okay – some good stuff happened, I ate lots of good food, and made loads of stuff! I’m not […]

  • Faux-chet Cowls!

    Squeezing in one last pattern for this year – presenting Faux-chet Cowls! They might look like double crochet, but they are knit! Six patterns in one, like my Cross Stitch Cowls! Two lengths (single and double loop), three gauges (fingering, worsted, chunky). The cowls begin with a provisional cast on, are knit flat, and then […]

  • a new friend

    Last week I took a quick break from my (many) sweater projects to whip up a test knit – this is Poklon by ysolda, the latest of her Knitworthy patterns. Isn’t he so cute?! Ysolda’s pup is a girl, but I think mine is a boy. There were some very slight changes to the pattern […]