Posted in Book Reviews on September 29, 2007 | No Comments »
I ran into this new book by Joelle Hoverson (of Last Minuted Knitted Gifts fame), my TGIF gift to myself after a really challenging week. Many of the projects are inspired by Denise Schmidt, very contemporary, but with a very sweet, precious color palette that is so breathtaking. Lots of pinks and golds and chocolates, [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns, On the Needles on September 23, 2007 | 6 Comments »
My knitting and quilting world collided into a profusion of color this week when I began knitting this from a few skeins of Noro Kureyon that I fell in love with and then discovered this beautiful new book from Katheryn Berenson on the Quilts of Provence. I saw it mentioned in Quilt Mania and was [...]
Posted in Patchwork on September 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I was so excited to give this a try and it turned out to be the funnest part of making this quilt. I’ve never done this before and have only seen it a few times but a little light bulb went off in my head, how cool it would be to use striped fabric to [...]
Posted in On the Needles on September 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In case you might have read the last post, I finally finished my first mitten, and solved the mystery on how to avoid that funny little line from showing up. As I suspected, tightening the yarn did the trick. By the time I got to the top triangle all was well. After finishing the point with the [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns, On the Needles on September 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My very first success with two color knitting on double pointed needles, I can hardly believe it. I had tried this no less than five times before, all ending in total disaster. I have so many things I want to share that I learned for others trying to get the hang of this. First, the [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Yarns on September 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The heat is sizzlin hot over here, another scorcher day and as the temperature climbs to 100F+ I’ve pulled out my latest yarn project for the last days of summer. I somehow braved the heat while knitting with Noro Kureyon on my last Fair Isle project (never again!) and this time around I’m exploring something [...]
