On my personal Facebook and Twitter profiles I include the description “reader of fat books”. Which is true. For several years I kept a link to my Goodreads shelf in the sidebar of my old blog. It’s no longer in the sidebar but if you’re on Goodreads you can find me as lostcityknits. I love [...]
Congratulations to Colleen of Utah who won our first PathWays Sock Yarn giveaway!! The Random Generator over at Random.org picked Colleen from the entries in our Facebook contest. Several years ago when Christopher and I were planning a vacation to Canyonlands and Arches in Utah with a swing through Santa Fe, and Taos, New Mexico [...]
During my early years as a knitter I both began knitting socks and attended the Taos Wool Festival. Driving home from New Mexico I decided I wanted to begin dyeing yarn. Now I’m combining the two loves of sock knitting and yarn dyeing into one great sock yarn, the new PathWays Sock Yarn. This 100% [...]
It’s a beautiful 64 degree February day here in rural Oklahoma. Great for hanging out and enjoying the breeze.
I’ve been busy charting patterns and dyeing new yarns, so I haven’t posted anything on Ravelry’s 12shawls2012 yet. Last week one of the KAL (short for “knit-a-long”) leaders called me out! Yes, she put me on the spot. Last year I voiced my desire to knit another one of Elizabeth Freeman’s lace patterns, the Torreyana [...]
Early in my knitting career I asked a teacher at a workshop how to knit a sock heel without the gaping hole. She gave me a withering look and said it can’t be done. I was a newbie and needed to learn to accept things the way they were apparently. I’m not a newbie anymore [...]
I’m a fan of things that hold other things. A purse with sections and pockets will give me delight as I tuck my phone here, my reading glasses there, ink pens lined up in just the right place. Odd little tins of stitch markers and notions provide tremendous pleasure too. The same goes for my [...]
I’ve finally bound off the Chrysanthemum Mittens that I cast on for Hillarey last year for her birthday. She knows about them so there will be no surprise when pulls them out of her stocking next weekend. That’s okay right? I still have to weave in the tails and there aren’t many. My plan is [...]
Chris has been brush hogging our pastures, and at that slow, prodding pace gets to notice things that otherwise get overlooked. Yesterday when he returned from across the creek he brought two little green and yellow gourds. “There are probably a hundred of them near the creek,” he said. Thank goodness I know an expert [...]
It has been a cold week here and my knitting attention has turned from lace shawls to hats and mittens. Perhaps your knitting priorities are veering more towards warmth, too, so I’m putting some heavier yarns on sale. These local yarns from happy sheep that live at Cordero Farm near Stillwater, Oklahoma are perfect for [...]