Great Towering Textiles

Witness a woman tempted beyond her ability to say no. Witness a woman who needs to have her head examined. Witness a leap into the experimen...

Or maybe I need less day in my day. More time for important things just becomes more time for things and things and things and OH am I behin...

I've cheated on my sweaters in progress and begun a quick and dirty alpaca chunky jacket. Remember that article a million years ago in ...

I gave away a GREAT representative bag of thrift stuff: One was a sweater I made. Hard to give away things we make, isn't it? I GAVE I...

Elizabeth's good sense was just what I needed to hear. When I read the posts on the occasional blog or board thread that raise an eyebro...

I'm so proud: I figured out how to get the little button things into the sidebar. They are as I had them before. (I certainly don...

I've been thinking about some long-lived and or long-ago projects. Mistakes Along the Way. Felt too critical. Lessons Learned Along th...

I'm enjoying the Tuscany pattern much better on size 4's than it was looking over here, in this previous post .

Complete! Yarn is Fiesta Boomerang. Colorway is Poppies. Purchased 3 skeins. Used 2 and a half, or a little more.Knit on size US 8 . ====...

Elfine I'm too stubborn to go shopping for short circs. I'll muddle through with dpns just fine. For the record.

Yes, yes, yes. I'm aware we're mid-September. No more from you, you blog-voice of absence-guilt. I was knitting in early Septembe...

I copycat this from Costumechick who posted similarly a couple of weeks ago. It's a fitting post following a weekend where I enjoyed tr...

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...