SWS Obsession & Future Inspirations.

SWS Love.
There are some yarns that I go back to again and again. Paton’s Soy Wool Stripes is one of those. I love the soy/wool blend, the color selection, the self-striping, and slightly heavier than worsted, the feltability, and the texture. I’d like it to be a little softer, but it’s nicer [...]

FO: Knit Beaded Bracelet (Bauble), Faux Harry Potter, Entrelac Scarf

Movie Date.
I had a very nice date with the boyfriend yesterday.  We saw the Harry Potter movie in IMAX (with 20 minutes of 3D action!), had a nice lunch, shopped, and then saw Hairspray (no 20 minutes of 3D action, but AMAZING movie that you have to see - I might be a theatre geek, [...]

FO: Calorimetry & Scarf and the magic of entrelac

Finished Objects
I bought two skeins of super soft, very cuddly, worsted Malabrigo a few weeks ago, and decided that it needed to be a scarf. It’s a lovely semi-solid in a bright green - they call it Lettuce. I call it love. I cast on about 25 or so stitches on [...]

Two Finished Objects!

I had two days off this weekend. Yes, that’s right: two days off. IN A ROW. It was awesome.
I knit a lot. Also slept a lot.
And my mother came over and cleaned my kitchen. And ate tacos.
Did I mention it was awesome?

This is where my knitting leaves when it [...]

Oh, yarn.

How I adore you. I really, really don’t know what it is - but, more and more, I think my knitting obsession is simply the most logical step in my yarn obsession. Because if you don’t knit or crochet or do something with all of that yarn you start to accumulate… people may [...]