Winter = hand knits
I’m at home today while contractors install insulation under the floor of my living room and dining room. That means a day of putting up Christmas and Hanukkah decorations and baking for an event on...
View ArticleHow many knitting days until Christmas?
I don’t know. But this is what I was knitting in my “how to carry two colors in your right hand” video tutorial the other day. It’s a shop sample for Twisted; I’m teaching a Christmas stocking class on...
View ArticleQuincy rocks!
I finished my second Quincy hat (ravelry link) yesterday. This is just the cleverest construction. One of the other knitters at knit night (Toni, if you’re keeping score) actually did the garter...
View ArticlePippi goes to Multnomah Falls
It’s been really cold here lately, with temperatures down in the teens. That’s pretty chilly for our mild climate. But Jack Frost is an artful decorator. check out my windshield. Laurie and I took a...
View ArticleIt’s beginning to look a lot like…
Christmas? At least in some circles. I found this in my box of teaching pieces. It’s a Christmas stocking that I started while teaching last year’s Snowflake Christmas Stocking class at Twisted. I’m...
View ArticleSuper Cabled Christmas Stocking
Expialidocious? (Sorry for the earworm) I’ve been knitting up a storm. First, a new pattern! The Super Cabled Christmas Stocking knits up in a wink with super bulky yarn at 2 stitches per inch on size...
View ArticleThe stockings were hung…
Does this look like the home of a knitter? I knit Christmas stockings for our family about 15 years ago. The snowflake stockings came first. After that? Variations on the theme. I knit the piano...
View ArticleChristmas is just around the corner…
It’s August, and it’s hot. I’m thinking of winter’s chill, and big fat yarn. This is my Snowflake Christmas stocking. It’s one of my earlier patterns; I first published it in 2009. But I designed this...
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