I crocheted what feels like a hundred potholders. I originally planned to participate in this year’s Potholder Swap! but the timing just didn’t work out. I had already made a bunch of little pieces, but then I got busy with the Graveyard Socks and other things. No swap for me. Sad, especially because last year…
I once had a cheese steak sandwich with my future husband in a little town called Talkeetna, Alaska. He claimed it was the best he ever had. That should explain these pictures. Okay, so the pictures have nothing to do with cheese steak sandwiches, but this new pattern that I designed is called Talkeetna, named…
My favorite chapter of any knitting book is Chapter 2 of Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitting Without Tears. The chapter is called “Gauge: Required Reading” and it’s short and to the point. I pulled the book off the shelf yesterday specifically to read just that chapter. I’m teaching a Learn to Knit class at my LYS and…
