Spring.

Happy Spring. I’m officially on spring break from school this week with no big plans. I’ve just been enjoying the lovely weather, admiring the newly flowering magnolia and red bud trees, and playing outside as much as possible. I’ve knitted many...

We are all works in progress

Hello Reader! It’s my blogiversary! Welcome! Today is the fourth anniversary of my blog.  It seems like such little time has passed. I began this blog when I met my friend Lynda Jo and started getting back into knitting. I didn’t really even have an...

The Girl with the Purl Toes

I like simple socks.  I like a quarter mile of stockinette sometimes to subtly soothe my restless fingers and quell my frantic mind.  I like take socks with me everywhere, and I usually am knitting at least two pairs at once.  These particular socks I engineered from...

Teach me!

I would really like to put together a post about great knitting reference books.  The Knitter’s Handbook by Montse Stanley is often mentioned in blogs, and Elizabeth Zimmerman is a queen of good knitting instruction, but what about the other gems?  I’m...

Don’t be alarmed, it’s only yarn.

Many knitters out there have heard of Knitta, the renegade group of knitters that started the knitted graffiti craze and have carried it to cities all over the world.   Oh, you haven’t heard?  Well, check it out.  This knitted bus is one of my all-time...

Happy June

I have no excuses for my silence. Or many excuses.  In the past month I have survived finals, moved, begun working at Hand Held, knitted, frogged, sighed, knitted again, contemplated, laughed, cried, cooked, reminisced,  examined memorabilia, let go, and I’m...