Holiday happenings

Hope you all had a happy holiday. I know I did. We finally woke my son up at around 11:00 am to open presents. This is not a teenage thing...

Alive and well, and living in Lawrenceville.

WOW, Where did the last two months go?! I've been busy, busy, busy, and still not enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do....

Big Blue

I'm happy to finally share my most recent "real" sweater project with you. I've been knitting lace and other smaller wooli...

Koolhaas Online Release

Writing from Brooklyntweed HQ: Washington with a quick bit of news. Thanks to a whole lot of e-mails from you all, Interweave has released ...

The Ribwarmer

Here's a Christmas present that was given early to my mom when she was visiting after Thanksgiving. New York is colder than Washington s...

Christmas Fiddle-Faddle

I've done a bit of Christmas knitting here and there between the Pi and waiting on more yarn for my Garter Stitch Blanket (that thing i...

Notes on November

Well I've been somewhat of a knitting schizophrenic lately, working on all sorts of little projects intermittently between my larger ch...

Half Curved Shawl frogged

I was this close to finishing the main body of Half Curved Shawl with Diamond Edging with shy of 3 repeats of chart A. I had to rip it off b...

Fall Spinning

When the temperature finally dropped, the spinning bug came back with a vengeance. I've only had time here and there to spin a little i...

The Purl-less Void

Well, midterms are over. And the BrooklynTweed tumbleweeds are blowing again. How is it November already? We gained an hour yesterday and...

Oh what a beautiful day!

It's one of those rare occasions when I have the house all to myself. (No, I'm not knitting in my underwear, but I could if I wanted...

Koolhaas

First - a huge thanks to all of you who've gotten your IK Holiday Gifts Issue early and e-mailed about my pattern. The hat has been wor...

FINALLY, something to blog about!

Sorry gang. Today was my 21st straight freakin ' day in a row of WORK, and I still don't have a single day off 'til next Saturda...

Cap Karma

A quick little bit of handspun knitting to stave off that wonderful chill in the air. Pattern : Cap Karma by Smariek (Yahoo Group) Material...

Taking Stock

One of the best parts of moving ( only in retrospect can I deem this as a positive) is the inevitability of taking stock of all those nasty...

Fir Cone Border Scarf

I'm knitting the scarf with fir cone border on page 96. I'm having trouble with Chart A, row 3. I end up with an extra stitch at t...

Yes, I'm still here.

OK, I've been a bad blogger. No posts for over two weeks! My bad. I've come to the conclusion that I don't have to have photos w...

Squeaking By

Isn't it a bit sad how dependent we are on the internet ? I never really notice it until the precious life-blood of blogging is ripped ...

Home, home again....

In the immortal words of Dorothy, "There's no place like home!". (although, I've been to Kansas. Oz didn't look so bad...