Knitting Category
Yarn from Down Under!
(and we’re not talking sheep bellies here). Behold the fabulous wool and silk blend by Gayle: Thanks, Gayle! I love…
Katherine Hepburn's unknit yarn
Up for auction: Katherine Hepburn’s unknit yarn. Too bad they think it’ll go for $400-600, how cool would that be…
Lucy roving
Some time ago, my knitting teacher / fiber enabler Lucy at Mind’s Eye Yarns gave me this roving she’d dyed…
Day Two: yarn continues to arrive
Today’s contribution to the group sweater project comes from Melissa at Loose Ends Knits, in the great state of Maine…
And the first yarn is from…
Johanna in Sweden! Here’s a picture of the gorgeous blue and grey handspun she sent, and a link to her…
TNNA Needle Arts Show in Columbus
This weekend I am off to Columbus for the National Needle Arts Association summer show, in hopes of grabbing a…
I have an idea…
(this is a phrase that either makes my boyfriend preemptively say “no!”, or run in the opposite direction…he knows better)…
Weaving in the Kalevala
In Rune VIII of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic poem, hero Wainamoinen happens upon the Maiden of the Rainbow…
Art is good…
Knitting and textile art is better! Hildur Bjarnadóttir is awesome. She’s an Icelander (like you couldn’t tell from the name?)…
Knitting book news!
In the immortal words of one Mr. Ice-T: “bust the cap on the Moet”! Yours truly has a book deal.…