so i’m definitely one who keeps lots of different things on lots of different needles all at once.  i like variety…  i like choice…  when i go on vacation, i take about twice as many clothes as i need ’cause i want to pick what i’m going to wear that day, not be forced to [...]

and i can finally let you know…
yarn date = success!!
hehehe ruth and i had a great time and there were none of those, i met you on the internet – you better not be a serial killer moments.
i will have a couple pics to add of my stash enhancement (and a just about [...]

so, i’m meeting ruth up in ann arbor at this place after work, today. 
yay yarn date!  that might seem like a silly thing to call it, but let me tell you that in the yarn/knitting/fiber art of choice community, a ’stash enhancement expedition’ is sometimes referred to as s.e.x., so saying i have [...]

so eric has a friend who, as of last year, shares a birthday with his own daughter.    she’ll be one, tomorrow, and i wanted to make her a little something.
recently, a new friend (and name buddy!!) posted on the get stitchy! board that she’d made the toddler hat from one skein, which is [...]

well, if this doesn’t sound fun to you, i’ll blame it on all the sudafed i’ve been ingesting due to the sinus yuck that has taken hold of me…
a few things i have to share:

i got approval from one of the owners of Fiberworks to share the free pattern i used to make that button [...]

so our fun project for this month at is dyeing yarn with kool-aid!
i know i mentioned that when i posted yesterday, but i wanted to show off my first attempt…
you dissolve your koolaid into containers of just enough water to make it all dissolve, then you put your yarn in and fill up [...]

so, i know the noble thing to do would be to join up on some service group that considered Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a day ON, not a day OFF… but for now, i’m just enoying the moment, with two of my favorite things. yarn (the entrelac scarf is about an hour from done) [...]

this month is the kool-aid dye-along at the new knitting forum that i’m a part of:

i’m awaiting my bare yarn from knit picks so that i can play along.
you should come and play with us if you like yarn, too.
love and running low on patience,
sarah lou

i was finished with what Christmas knitting i could finish. and almost all of it on time…
jeffy (pronounced hey-fey) and scott were in town – a couple of our nyc honorary ohisians – and stina was coming to play. jeff really liked some of the knitting he was seeing (particularly the manly wristwarmers) and [...]