Great Towering Textiles

There has been sewing and knitting and not much blogging or photography. I'll be taking the camera home for a few days. We'll see ...

There's a paradox. Two greens that aren't green. One is a delectable deep brown indulgence of Green & Blacks dark chocolate wi...

I ate radishes for breakfast this morning. (That's it. Can't post more. Must finish a paper of sorts.)

I live excitement. Here are some photos of a weekend of Steel Penny. They are small for ease of loading, but you should be able to click t...

I'd hoarded this jar of Branston Pickle for too long, I decided, so I opened it up some weeks ago and have been enjoying it steadily. L...

So Thursday, when I kept myself away from all things work, I cheated on my socks. Stash yarns. Sale yarns. Lana Gatto Feelings. Pretty in...

June brings normalcy to my sleep patterns. I go to bed at decent hours and sleep well, getting up in the mornings to do the simple homefron...

One finished, two not. One Hedera, two Jaywalker. One without heel and gusset, two with. AND BESIDES which, I give you a view so far of the ...

I tried to carve out some me time this weekend. There was graduation, after all, so that sucks up a fair bit of time and energy. "Me ti...

Hedera is past the heel turn and onto the gusset. Enjoyable knit. Enjoyable yarn. The Jaywalker trudges along. Discovered (or discovered,...

I gathered up books to drop off at the library (overdue by a day), a couple of which were knitting books which I will check out again. Stil...

It's not the wool. Funny, though, three people yesterday asked me if knitted socks would be itchy. They were surprised that the yarn w...

As a change of pace from Jaywalker knitting, I leapt into Hedera , with some Regia Plus Cotton which I had purchased at Borealis between Chr...

Elizabeth at SABLE quite rightly applauded her achievements at getting the exposure just so for capturing dark wools. I thought I should ta...

I was working on a little swatch project on these lovely old aluminums. There's a bend in one, but the older needles with the ruler on ...

Seems to me that the last two years I launched into some serious knitting in May, just about at graduation. I hauled a significant project ...

Two balls of Knit One Crochet Two WICK = one pair of socks, toe up. I'm content. I'm wearing them.

I'm late, I'm late, no time to say hello, goodbye, I'm late I'm late I'm late ... I finished a Wick sock, even though I ...

... I bought a wee little May present on Saturday. Will photo post another day. But I used what I had and finished the Seuss Socks. Start...

It's cold and rainy. I swear I saw snow. I'm wearing my new sweater. I'm not responsible, really. Knitting is powerful, no? (Po...