Almost… One more this weekend. I was invited to peddle my wares at the first ever Knit One One Craft Fair. Knit One One is a local knitting studio offering classes and space for knitting and spinning meet ups. They are very close to my house (and next to a …
Well, I am hitting the road. A minivan filled with my friends, my moustaches and my fiber will be headed down to So-Cal for the Felt Club Holiday 2008 Event on Sunday Nov 16th. I am still wondering how I will fill a 10′ x 10′ space without Abby’s bags …
I am a permanent ballot-by-mail voter in California. I was able to lounge around my apartment and vote at my leisure…. But I paid a price – no sticker. Apparently many other mail-in voters drop their ballots off at their polling place on election day, and get a sticker. I …
Bottle cap coasters Rettocamme $24. Super Mario Perle beads lostmitten $22. Screenprinted summersville $24.95 Recycled skateboards 2revert $40 Felt floppy disks thegeekery $28 Block printed bingo 1girl1boy $22.
A continuation from Part I – some of my favorite self striping sock yarns The last two of my favorite self-stripers hold their own with creative color combos that always look good to me. Sknitches Photo courtesy of flickr user Wannabeknittin’ Take sknitches for example. Yes, I am clearly a …
Another socktober is upon us… Last year I didn’t do too much sock knitting during Socktober… but at least I thought about socks a lot. There is the slim possibility that I will cast on for sock this month. I can guarantee that I am not going to finish one …
I can’t believe that I have waited this long to tell you… There is going to be another Color: A Fiber Festival in just a few weeks. It is at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley CA on Saturday October 18. If you didn’t make it last time, and …
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, hands down. With the arrival of October, I can’t stop looking forward the last day of the month. I have hopes to finish up a long-standing and halloween-appropriate Secret Project but I can’t make any promises. In the mean time, I can remind …
I have been unhappy with my ripple afghan for a while now. I haven’t ripped it out since I didn’t know quite what I would do instead. Now I have an idea… Inspired by the multitudes of fantastic hexagon blankets on Ravelry () and in the Hexagon love flickr pool, …
You know the fiddlehead mittens I mentioned in this earlier post? I really want to make a pair. Adrian (of Hello Yarn) made quite a splash by selling mitten kits – a pattern and a set of beautifully colored hand dyed yarns in a luscious 70% merino 30% mohair blend. …