Month: January 2014

  • Introspection ahead.

    New shawl design, fingering weight merino. Warning: ramblings follow this pretty photo. I didn’t start out 2014 in a strong manner, with good intentions and focus and all that. Instead, I limped into it with illness, some yucky health issues (I have seen the doctor, working it out), no plan for the year, and NO […]

  • every day I’m stitchin’

    The package came a little while after Christmas, but Dale got me the materials for the Superhero Sampler! I used to cross stitch some when I was a kid, and I did the Winterwoods Sampler a couple years ago, but this will be my biggest cross stitch project ever! (Apparently I never took a photo […]

  • tourist yarn shawl

    One last Christmas present to share with you – this lace-and-stockinette shawl, for Dale’s mum. This was a pretty awesome, easy knit from December. I used a pretty special skein of yarn, Fyberspates 4ply cashmere/silk. I picked it up at Purl City Yarns in Manchester when I was there a couple of years ago, I […]