Really I do have a life beyond knitting…I swear it. Although this blog doesn’t often seem to reflect said claimed life, nor will it today. First up: a finished shawl. I love this shawl. It is completely my color – a softish green but not pastel, more of a light olive green. I’ve dubbed it…
On 14 March 2008 this blog began with a post about fleece. My first sentence was “I’ve been fortunate as a knitter.” I still feel this way. Today I’ve spent the afternoon skirting and washing more raw fiber. I’ve partnered with the lovely women of Cordero Farm, who have generously supplied me with several fleeces. A…
We have seven or so inches of snow on the ground here in Oklahoma but according to my calendar it’s officially Spring! Svar gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”);document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”));Three new colorways of yarn are ready for show and tell and several more are on the way.…
My mother never took the answer “everyone’s doing it” as reason enough for me to do anything. Now that doesn’t mean I was by any means a unique child. I wasn’t. I joined bandwagons just like most kids – including getting a shag cut and a motorcycle at age 14. It was the ’70’s. Mom loved pulling…
The Percy Shawl was named for Percy Shelley, one of the finest English Romantic poets and a favorite of the designer, Sanne Kalkman. In this incredibly lovely shawl I too see romance and poetry in the arch of the stitches, the punctuation of the nupps in the border and the delicacy of the overall effect.…
Tonight I will be binding boundoff my Percy Shawl. While I’m excited to see how it blocks, my mind is already moving ahead to the next shawl – the next two shawls actually. Swallowtail is next, then Baltic Blossoms. Yes – nupps galore! The next Swatching Walker post should be up this weekend – Monday at…
You know it’s tough sometimes to chose a winner, and that’s why it’s soooo easy just to let the Random Generator do it for me. Our winner Tweeted about the contest and I liked that even though I don’t Tweet I was able to see her posting about the contest via the link she provided.…
With warm weather around the corner and preparations being made to begin another season at the farmers market, I’m jonesing for fresh fruit and veggies. I’m tired of grocery store produce that was picked who-knows-when. I’m ready for the good stuff. Corn from Bixby, tomatoes and peppers from Oaks, asparagus, watermelon, blue berries…and Porter Peaches. …
On a trip to Portland, Oregon in 2004, I picked up one of the hundreds of chestnuts that had fallen on the street near our hotel. I’ve kept it in my coat pocket ever since, and am reminded of that trip each fall when I retrieve that coat. This silk colorway, in turn, reminds me…
Yesterday I finished the 4 repeats of Chart A on the Percy Shawl. The little flowers were sweet and charming but I moved on to Chart B and was six rows into it when I realized just how small a part the little flowers I liked in Chart A would play in the completed shawl.…