The last few weeks are half lost in fog and now that I’m feeling better, I’m also feeling so removed from the world. When I finally went into work they got all teary eyed like they thought I would be gone forever; I became so behind in my Spanish class that I dropped out (because [...]
You know I love a good cardigan, right? Well, I’m really excited about this one. I wanted to design a solid cardigan with a shawl collar and a big cable up the back. It would be cozy, not too fitted, medium length, and knit out of dk-weight yarn. A quick search on Ravelry found almost [...]
Maybe you can tell how excited I am about a project by the amount of time it takes me to blog about it. Usually, I finish something and I’m so thrilled that I have to get a photo right away and post it. My Damson shawl was finished back in May, and you might recall [...]
A few things have collided in space and time to make for perfect knitting conditions: I am cardigan-crazy. I wear them all year and, other than socks, they are usually the only article of clothing that I wear out. Yep, that’s how much I wear them. Thank goodness for elbow patches. We at Urban Yarns [...]
Did you know that it’s impossible to leave a fibre marketplace empty handed? Of course you did. To wrap up the Madrona experience, I feel compelled to document my souvenirs. For some reason, the fique (a plant fibre from the pineapple family) above especially called to me, maybe because it’s the exact opposite of my [...]