What do you do with a batch of leftover yarn from a knitting project? When it is Noro, you make another project immediately! My new vest (my term for it) is another pattern from the book “Knitting Noro, by Jane Ellison. A simple stockinette stitch is used for the body, and a garter stitch for [...]
I am taking a break from sewing and discussing one of my latest knitting projects. Quite a few years ago, I purchased four skeins of Noro’s Kochoran. Between then and now Kochoran has been discontinued. Last January, I finally decided to make a cardigan using Noro. This presented a problem, since we all know four [...]
Hello everyone! It has been a while, since October 14th actually. After finishing that monstrously long crazy-quilt top (HERE), I needed a break! Not a break from creating, but delving immediately into another long drawn-out project, which, my next garment project is. I thought it would be fun to go over all the little things [...]
Yes, I am one of those! I knit and sew for my dogs. Before 2009, I would not have dreamed of taking the time to do something like this. But then I adopted a five-year-old Toy Poodle I named Sophia and fell into the abyss of fashionable dogs. It's a life style. For Lynnie's first [...]
The first time I wore it was to the symphony. I styled it with a black column using my black Palazzo pants and a black cotton Cami, both of which I also made. In 2009, Interweave Press published, French Girl Knits by Kristen Griffin Grimes. The designs were very romantic and a few were vintage-looking. [...]
I knitted a quick project in my ROMC (Rows of Many Colors) technique last week. This was a surprise gift for one of my dearest and closest friends. The last time I wrote about ROMC was October 29th, 2020 which was about a long cardigan. That was a very long and involved project. My ROMC scarfs are [...]
MeadowTree Style 