Category: musings

  • Birthday Sale!

    I know it’s only Wednesday, but to me it feels like nearly the weekend already. Tomorrow’s my birthday and then it’s a holiday weekend! Won’t you celebrate with me? All individual patterns (not ebooks) in my Ravelry shop are 29% off through Monday, August 5, 2013. No coupon code needed, it will automatically be applied […]

  • Yardage

    Yardage. It’s one of those tough things when you’re a knitter – how much yarn to buy? The obvious answer is, “all of it”, but usually you’re a little more limited than that! How much fabric will this skein of yarn make? Well, that depends on what you’re knitting, the needle size, the gauge, the […]

  • black, grey, stripes

    Just bound off this plain black shawl – just a top-down triangle in stockinette, with a seed stitch border. Needs a good blocking to open up, but doesn’t it look so cozy? It’s some cashmere that I bought a few Rhinebecks ago (too bad black is so hard to photograph). Also in hard to photograph […]