I’m well pleased with this one. It’s warm and comfy and fits just like a cosy sweater should, neither tight nor baggy, and plenty long to avoid ass cleavage. Here I demonstrate it’s comfort by doing the twist.

Pattern: Just a generic top-down raglan, my favorite mindless sweater
Yarn: Nashua Wooly Stripes, Rolling Thunder, 8 balls
What I […]

It turns out I can’t rip back my mermaid sweater to reshape it. The hairy single is just too sticky now that it’s been washed and I can’t unravel it without utterly destroying the yarn. So I must learn to live with the pooch. Pooches.  I can’t figure out a way to take it in […]

I’ve got a dozen crock-pots simmering away up in the home ec room, cooking up 10 pounds of colored wool top for the carding station at Yarn School! Wheeeeee!
I’m already totally excited about Yarn School. I got some bag samples in the mail today. I’m trying to pick one for this year’s sessions. Ron talked […]

Whee! Spring 2008 Registration is officially open! Yee Haw!

(Whew! I had a little Wordpress meltdown, but it looks like we’re all sorted now, hurrah!)
I’ve realized my fiber stash is just too crazy to tally. I don’t know what I was thinking. It’s not in discrete, compact, easily weighed and tallied parcels like yarn. There are a million sundry bags, balls, batts, containers, bumps, […]

I’m playing the waiting game to see which sweater will win the January title. When I learned Vera had more yarn for me, I went ahead and knitted out the rest of the yarn I had on the body, so right now, Skinny Cat is ahead by half sleeves. But I’m waiting on confirmation/shipping to […]

So my biggest knitting project this year is making a scarf long enough to wrap around the whole building. I haven’t measured, but I’m guesstimating that’s about 500 600 feet or so, which means an average of 16.5 (gulp) 20 inches a day.
It will be continuously handknit in one piece (no seaming), but other people […]

Just got a sample from Vera & it looks like the right yarn! Yay! I’m getting 5 more ounces. If I had known, I might’ve made the sweater a little looser. I think I’ll try it on again and decide. I keep clinging to this delusion I’m going to take the extra weight off so […]

Starting yarn weight, as of 1/1/2008 (I included UFO started this year): 102 kilos of yarn.
I think I’ve counted every last little bit, including the many massive cones I bought at Webs’ cone sale last year, and handspun on the bobbins. The only place I didn’t venture was my really packed bedroom closet, which may […]

Anyone interested in joining our little spinning club out in the country, please RSVP. We’ll be meeting at The Harveyville Project (aka my home) from 1 - 6 for spinning fun! (about 2 hrs from KC, 1 hr from Lawrence)
If you want to bring 4oz of something colorful, we can divvy it up and make […]