Every so often a knitter will come into the local yarn shop where I work and admire some of my crocheted samples (both my + others’ designs). They’ll ask if there is a way to create similar textures in knitting, and until now, there really wasn’t a good reference I could give them. Enter Kristin [...]

So remember this post about my bulky sweater made from Malabrigo Rasta? I frogged it a few  months ago. Then I started knitting a Big Lace Scarf from More Last-Minute Knitted Gifts, but I figured that that wouldn’t really use up much of the yarn so I wanted to make something bigger. Frogged.

Next I decided [...]

Yesterday Nikki and I headed out to Boerne, TX for the annual Kid’n Ewe Fiber Festival. This was my first year attending, so I wasn’t sure what to expect.  There were plenty of vendors selling yarn and wares, and it was low on the “frenzy” that you might see at bigger festivals. In fact, when [...]

I’ve started a teeny tiny craft night with a couple of friends, and wow, it is so nice to interact with humans!! As much as I love the internet, I don’t think anything will ever replace real live advice and all of that. Luckily I get to help people craft all of the time when [...]

When I saw Susan B. Anderson’s new pattern collection of woodland creatures in Knit Simple, I knew I had to buy a copy. Sure, I already have her book, Itty-Bitty Toys, and no, I haven’t made anything from it. YET. But I did help a student of mine make the super adorable giraffe–and we crocheted [...]

Psst, there’s a  new knitting magazine in town, and it’s a sister publication to Crochet Today–which means it’s got a little bit of everything for knitters of all skill levels. The very first issue of Knitting Today officially launched this week, and what do you know, I have a design in it. That’s right, a [...]

I got an email yesterday from my friend/crochet celebrity extraordinaire, Brett Bara. She’s the spokesperson for this year’s Land’s End/ Warm Up America FeelGood Campaign, and she asked me to help spread the word. In a nutshell, Land’s End will donate their FeelGood yarn to charitable knitting and crochet organizations with every FeelGood sweater purchased. [...]

I’m super excited to announce the launch of a new online knitting AND crochet magazine, Tangled. The mag contains both free + for purchase downloadable patterns, and it truly gives equal billing to knitting and crochet. The best part? Each issue has one design that’s “cross threaded“–that is, written for both knit and crochet. Each [...]

Yarn: Superbulky Malabrigo Rasta.
Knitter: Hot and bothered.
So I finished–except for the collar–my Cropped Cardi. To my dismay, it did kind of come out as a knitted fat suit. I left all of the ends loose after sewing up,  just in case the whole thing needed to be unraveled. And then I put it back in [...]

I’ve selected a winner for the giveaway, and it’s Lisa! Congratulations Lisa, I sent you an email to get your address. FYI, I used the random number generator to get the winner, which gave me 54, and counted down the comments to that commenter number. I was going to print all of the comments but [...]