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Tales of Knitting, Page 2

Self neglect

I forgot to celebrate my own blogiversary last week…. 3 years. There was one point when I was thinking I should I have a contest to celebrate, but I am not too clever at the moment. We’ll put that off until later. Thanks for reading, and thanks for all the …

Walker Treasury Project

Every once in a while, someone has a stroke of knitting genius. I think one just happened. While reading Get Your Hook On, Kathy mentioned the start of the Walker Treasury Project. A fantastic idea conceived by Nicole (she’s the one with a stroke of genius). The goal of the …

I feel lucky

I think I may have built up a little bit of good knitting karma. Just after announcing the winners in my contest, I found out that I am a winner. I won a skein of yarn from Yarn4Socks in a random drawing for Socktoberfest. Hooray! Thanks Yarn4Socks and thanks for …

Free pattern alert

DSCN2008.JPG Originally uploaded by abmatic. It seems that while I was away, fall has started to sneak its was into the Northern Hemisphere. Don’t get me wrong, it is flat out warm outside in the Bay Area right now, but the last few nights have been a little chilly (The …

I am an enabler

Want to buy some yarn? I have a few sale alerts for you…. I got an email from webs and they have some noro closeouts. Hurry, these went really quickly last time! They also have some big discounts in their summer sale section. And skein lane is upping the discount …