Why I Quit Ravelry

Here’s the statement I found on the main page of Ravlery’s website on Sunday, June 23, 2019: “New policy, effective immediately We are banning support of Donald Trump and his administration on Ravelry. We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy. Support of the Trump…

I Knit a West (and I liked it!) Music Video

I'm pretty sure that my local yarn shop, Dances with Wool, has the coolest knit group ever!  These ladies have hatched an epic plan to entice popular knitting designer, Stephen West, to stop by the shop the next time he's on the east coast.  With lyrics written by Victoria Drake that are a tribute to…

Cladonia Is Off the Needles

My Cladonia shawl is off the needles!!  And, not a single cat tried to sleep on it as it was blocking on the floor.  Providing them with a wool cat bed has seemed to curbed the appeal of my fresh knitting.  Yay! This shawl is quite big.  I modified the pattern to enlarge it so…

“Cat Basket” is a FO and a New Shawl WIP

The "Cat Basket" is finished!  The pic above shows the basket before felting.  It's sitting on 24" x 12" tiles to give it some scale to the size.  It was quite huge.  It's knitted with a bulky yarn held double. After felting, the size became a little bit more reasonable and fits my cat very…

Dog Beds for Cats and Baby Sweaters

My Archangel shawl is fixed!!  Last week, I shared that I picked a super stretchy bind off which ruined the structural integrity of my shawl.  It wasn't pretty.  A crochet hook and a quick crochet chain down the bind off took care of the too-stretchy edge that I made.  The little extra heft at the…

A Little Something Different

My newest finished object is called Archangel by Aliza Nevarie.  It's knit on size 6 needles with a Classic Elite yarn.  Mountain Top- Vail.  It was such an interesting construction!  You start knitting in garter stitch from the bottom up and then bind off and turn the corner to pick up the edge to then…

Color Affection

My color affection shawl is off the needles and blocked.  Knitted with fingering weight yarn, size 6 needles and miles of garter stitch, it's so squishy and stretchy.  I knit the pattern as written.  Many knitters advise you to include an extra YO at each end and then drop the YO to give a little…

Fresh Off the Needles

My lacy cowl/capelet is blocking.  I cast off while at my daughter's robotics competition in DC this weekend.  Sitting elbow-to-elbow in a large arena with blaring music, cheering, and horns for three days just about sent me over the edge.  It was such a relief when the noise ended and we were in the car…

Cowl/Capelette Progress

I've made some progress on my cowl/capelette in the past few days despite fighting a cold, working on new yarns for my Etsy shop, and performing the normal daily grind of activities that we all have to face.  I love the colors in this yarn but I'm still worried that it obscures the stitch pattern…

Next Up – A Lacy Capelette/Cowl

After a lot of swatching and thinking, I've settled on my next project.  It's going to be a lace-weight capelette that uses a couple of my favorite new stitches: the bee stitch and the fir stitch.  I'm hoping that the capelette will double as a long cowl when draped around the neck and then become…