Tudor Roses by Alice Starmore. ISBN: 978-1606600474. Hardcover. Calla Editions; Revised Expanded edition (November 8, 2013). There are a couple of things that I can tell you right off. First, this edition has no sweaters for men. So the Henry VII and Henry VIII sweaters are missing. Second several of the women’s sweaters have been […]
Knit Your Socks on Straight: A New and Inventive Technique with Just Two Needles by Alice Curtis, Storey Publishing, LLC (June 5, 2013). ISBN: 978-1612120089, Spiral Bound, 144 pages. List Price: $16.95 (Amazon: $11.32 / Kindle: $9.99) In the past, I’ve knitted a couple of different patterns for two-needle socks. Each one was different and […]
For a while, I was knitting a row or two of a sock and then putting it aside. Lots of starts and very few finished — well none of them finished actually — got the finishing of about 12 socks on my ToDo list now and trying not to get overwhelmed by the length of […]
I really don’t know what’s got into me lately. It seems like I’m just dragging through the days in a fog. I’m sleeping a lot but never feel rested. I’d have thought by this time now that my Capclave was over, I’d begin feeling rested and revving up on all the things I had to […]
The mystery genre has whole series of books that have a knitting, crocheting, spinning, weaving, and other fiber arts mentioned in them. In many, the amateur detective/sleuth owns a yarn store or art gallery and so the characters use these skills — either to help them solve the crime or in the background as the […]
We woke up to a thin blanket of snow covering everything. Yesterday the ground was bare of snow — today a couple of inches so far. It’s also cold. Bone chilling cold. I’ve stayed in all day. But one thing snow means is that all the little birds in the area flock to your deck […]
I don’t get to knit much except during those times when there’s not much else to do that requires my hands — so I knit when the PC locks up (which lately is a lot and knitting keeps me from trying to get it to work by pressing keys, thus making it worse) or when […]
Bear Update: When last we left the little bear in a previous post, it was rather scary looking. Parts scattered all over the place. I’d managed to make a back, front, two arms, and two legs. However, I couldn’t find my buttons for joints or my needle. So, things got put away. Finally, I managed […]