Thought the wrist twinge meant rain, stayed inside all day; this morning I can't move my hands.  #WHYgarterstitch Why don't I work w...

...at least that's what my friends tell me. *  HA! Ever since the opening ceremonies in Rio, I have been superglued to basically all O...

My love for the musical "Hamilton" is too much for one shawl alone... Luckily, there are shawl designers who share my leanings: ...

I tried very quickly to look into the history of the term "laceweight" and the precise origins of that designation-- as far as I c...

I'm not going to pretend I'm anything less than OBSESSED with the Broadway musical "Hamilton"; by now it's a cultu...

Prior to my accidental sabbatical, I featured the first two of this year's twelve shawls ( here and here )...  and then I fell down....

I used to fill journals, scribbling page after page, like writing down words was a battle to wage. I didn't mean for that to turn int...

I have been busy and tired and full of allergy brain and blah blah blah, excuses. But I have also been making blanket things! This one i...

So I've been working on this pankity pank pank shawl: The yarn is a laceweight single and it's so very light, knitting it up fee...

SO!  This is what I made with Tart: gentlemen prefer chevrons [ Rav ] by bunnymuff;  knit with madelinetosh prairie in colorway Tart ...

Sometimes a yarn is so fantastic, it can live only in the stash of my imagination.  It could be that the yarn is rare enough that next to ...

When I played Yarn Chicken with that ombre skein, it didn't work out precisely as planned ...  but it still looks really darn good: ...

This message has been brought to you at 3/14 at 1:59 am... image credit: Wikipedia Yeah, it's dorky to celebrate Pi Day, but th...

As you may have gleaned from a previous post, I've got a zazzy ombre handpainted shawl on the needles...    and I forgot to weigh the...

I started a crocheted "granny pixel" blanket in March 2015, making tiny tiny proto-granny squares for  eventual assembly into an 8...