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After weeks of feeling ho hum, I'm finally ready to start thinking about a new project. But first, I had to finish up a few things I stumbled across while sorting through my stuff. These mitts were originally

I finally have a tutorial for making toes and heels on the knitting machine. I began by doing the top of the sock's ribbing with my ribber. If you don't have a double bed machine, you can choose a hand

Sloppy because I made them a little too big through creative mathematics. Still, I like them so much that I wore them two days in a row. I did them on the machine. That's why they're done so fast. There

Today, I brought my sweater to the gallery to be juried. Even though it was basically finished a month ago, I left small things to wrap up and postponed some final decisions until a few days ago. It kind

My local thrift store has some great finds, but maybe I should bring my phone with me to comparison shop. I bought an Ott light there for 25 dollars, but it seems this particular model is discontinued

I finally submitted a photo of my sweater for the local fiber arts show. I still haven't put the buttons on, and I have some loose ends to weave in. I found some toggles at the yarn store. The color was

I adopted Monkey five years ago. She came already with her name and a big personality. As the smallest of a litter of 10-13, I imagine she needed that extra feistiness to survive. I hear two or three puppies

I've been working on the sweater for the whole month of January. Luckily, the submission date has been moved up once again. Now it is February 5th, and I think that's pretty firm. I still need to finish

Well, now it seems I have an additional ten days to finish. Before I knew this, I rushed ahead with the sleeves. As you can see below, my first sleeve was a little different. After hanging the sleeve on

This is a vest I made with scraps a little while back. Not sure why this bee's so vigilant. Maybe he's on the lookout for Monsanto.

I have to get a garment together for a local group show. At least, I knew I was going to make a cardigan for an adult. First, I dyed some skeins of eggplant and pink that knitted out in long color repeats.

I almost forgot that it's needleworkmonday! After the art tour, I knew I was suppose to start working on an entry for a joint show, but I didn't. A few days ago, I used leftover skeins from that event

I cheated a bit on this one, but I really wanted to participate. Our power went out this past weekend, so chores piled up! I pulled out an old project that had hearts and hope that it's a good substitution

I'm getting closer, but there is still much more working the wool in really well. Plus, there is more of the design to fill in as you can see especially on the slipper on the left. I am grateful that the

I have a custom order for a pair of decorated elf slippers. After years of working with the same bag of dyed wool, I really wanted to use a different palette. The customer requested dominant earth tones,

Well, the first weekend is over, and I have to say that I didn't do as well as last year so far. There were a lot of weavers who had beautiful towels, scarves, blankets and rugs to sell. I would say that

With all the bumps and snags of the past couple of weeks, I really had to scramble to get things ready for the studio tour. I thought I was taking the easy way out by concentrating on dyeing yarn, but

A few weeks ago, I wrote a dyeing tutorial, and I mentioned what I would do if my washing machine broke. I hesitated before writing that because it's kind of dangerous for me to say things like that. The

I'm still working on stuff to sell at the tour that is the first two weekends in December. Last year, I made a number of these, and they all sold, so I figured I'd try to make a few pairs. The color isn't

I shared a dyeing technique yesterday And here's the hat I made with the yarn: No model was available today, but this will give you an idea of how it looks on a human. Both are made with hand-dyed yarns,