Great Towering Textiles

As a break from knitting scarves, I knit a hasty shawl for a costume project. It's not much to speak of: durable acrylic donated to the...

Nope. This is the last scarf. Found I did take a picture that looked like the yarn on the Old Shale Soxie Scarf. This is the next gift scar...

Another graduation scarf: Yarn: Soxie from Great Adirondack in Nantucket Needles: 8 Pattern stitch - Anna Bell's Old Shale Baby Blanke...

Can't decide which photo captures the yarn better, as neither captures the whole quite well. One catches the highlights, thanks to the ...

Annual knitting tally done? CHECK! Long absence from blog? Yep! Road trip to see friends & family? Three thousand miles of done! A we...

Summer to Summer Knitting Count Four pairs of socks * Aunt Blue Socks * Mystery Socks * Spring Striped Socks * Pomatomus ...

Done. Socks for a second aunt who very gracefully asked if I might have time Some Time to knit her a pair of socks. Not a problem. Lorna...

Montego Bay scarf is Amy Singer's pattern, published in Interweave Knits. Handmaiden Sea Silk was a gift from adriennec . I really enjo...

Some long time ago glittrgirl or skitten posted a favored and favorite quote from Samuel Beckett, playwright and novelist. As I am an avow...

1. If you really think you might not have enough yarn, you might be right. 2. If you swatch, you can risk believing your swatch. 3. Save th...

I've cast on twice for Brigitta . I'm using some indulgent yarn from The Fibre Company - Pemaquid - I picked up from a sale basket....

Baby Blanket - Anna Bell's Old Shale Baby Blanket (An old standard, but she wrote up the proportions so I didn't have to think too ...

Absent chez blog, frenzied in the work house..... Finished the last phase of a MAJOR work project this week. We're in production now. ...

One of the yarns in the middle of yesterday's post is Lorna's Laces sock yarn in Blue Jeans. I'm back to having a pair of socks...

Elizabeth said she saves pictures for occasions where blog life needs a little poke. I've been too long away. Can't and shouldn...

I have very little on the needles. I'm making Anna Bell's Old Shale Baby Blanket for a gift. This is an active project. I've mo...

This will be much like bringing an umbrella when it doesn't rain and forgetting the umbrella to find it pours. Odds are good, you know,...

The knitting has been done for awhile. I just needed a break so I could do the fringe and not worry about the interruptions that come scree...

4 more days.... I'm definitely counting down the days until break. Definitely need the break FROM. Definitely looking forward for the b...

Even if the sewing isn't done, thought I'd catch a photo. Otherwise, I'll get them sewn and packaged and sent and once again, o...