Great Towering Textiles

Last week I had every intention of tidying up the blog by switching to the updated templates. This widget thing has me perplexed, though. ...

I did regroup on the Monkey Sock. Curiously, or not so curiously to the knitter more savvy than I, a change up in needle brought me to exac...

Typical of knitting when it's hot: I actually had a birthday gift request for these. Truthfully, the request was for another style, of ...

It has been my great good fortune to have been on the receiving end of some notable hospitality & kindness. I've been traveling a go...

We had some fun grade school science, we did, in the process of shrinking up the knit messenger bags. I took "before shots," but I...

Having posted my thanks promptly to Kathy for her fun wintry CASP 3 packages, I promptly FORGOT to take photos. Having finally taken photos...

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...