Great Towering Textiles

Some of the staples of useful stash knitting: The ubiquitous dishcloth. My cousin actually ASKED for some for her birthday. I'm on the...

Some things are finished. This quilt has been nearly done for ages. Had someone volunteer to help me get the binding on. I made sure she w...

Other people work up to such things. I swatched enough of the basic Tuscany Shawl pattern that I thought I'd be okay. I didn't cou...

I'd be the Bad Knitty. Haven't posted pictures of packages. There will be catching up, some today, and some in a few weeks. (I...

Sometimes the best thing you can do for a friend is to sit. Or to listen. Or to chatter. Or to share a dessert. It's been an importa...

Holiday ritual: I make a cherry pie and share the eating AND often the baking with my aunt. She's the family's pastry guru. This ...

I was very taken by the Argosy Wrap, led to the pattern by Mason-Dixon reading and links to the pattern's creator . It captured my att...

This is all the glamour I need from this skirt. I have a nice self-fabric casing and I took care to edgestitch. I have a lightweight, bring...

I really liked this dress. Purchased the fabric at a quilt shop set up in a chicken coop. I bought the fabric for this very purpose, and I ...

Purchased the cotton for this blouse for what, $1.00 a yard last spring. The fabric reminded me of my grandmother's blouse, the one I wo...

I started The Monkey a few times. I wasn't convinced about the fit of the cast on and over-thought my response to the Claudia yarn'...

It is with a measure of respectable restraint that I find I am not making much knitting progress on projects already suffering on the needle...

During March, when I endured the first week of the evil flu that really hammered some of the adults in my circles, I worked on pieces of a B...

Last May I posted a Summer to Summer tally of the knitting I'd done that year. It's surprisingly full of small projects. Must have...

Earlier this winter I was determined to knit a quick sock. I had some lovely Shepherd's Sock in Ravenswood. Having grown up taking the...

I've not been very posty this spring. This year. I've been productive, though. I've also been unplugged for stretches at a ti...

Feeling a little frayed? Have been days when you've had very little left to give? Overwhelmed by that whole heap of the mundane that li...

It so happens that I was working my way through shelves of plays and stacks of play collections today. I have to take home a mighty pile of...

I did some non-confrontational knitting during my spring break / virus break. One down, one to go. The next has stripes and a flap. Then co...

It's not my fault, really. A few weeks ago when I was home and sick, I did get a bit of knitting done. Of course, it wasn't cold ...