Hello 2024

This wild weather has me all out of whack… but I do have some goals I’d love to accomplish in 2024! #MakeNine2024 This year, I built my grid out of WIPs (and some of them may be familiar!). Hoping I’ll have a complete grid to show off by then end of the year! Expand on […]

Goodbye 2023

Happy New Year! 2023 was a year I was just happy to survive, but I’m still celebrating my wins (and acknowledging the losses) for my resolutions this year: Wins: I did better on my MakeNine2023 than I did on my MakeNine2022! I had three finished objects, four WIPs, and only two that I did not […]

Inis Oirr

This was by far my favorite locale of the whole trip! And really, would a knitting tour of Ireland be complete without a visit to the famous Aran Islands (you know, where Aran fisherman sweaters get their name)? We spent all our island time on Inis Oirr (pronounced EE-nes SHEER), which is the smallest and […]

Galway, Ireland

When we first arrived, I wasn’t so impressed, but Galway made me love it before we left! Nearby is the village of Spiddle, a government-subsidized group of houses that Irish artists can work and sell out of. It was so neat! We met Ciaran Hogan, a second-generation basket weaver, who took very kindly to all […]

Knits of Ireland

I got to check off a major bucket list item last month. My mom and I booked a Knitting Tour with Irish Tourism to learn the fiber techniques of our ancestors (Mom’s Dad came from an Irish Catholic family). I first read about these trips in a spinning magazine over a decade ago, so I […]

Emotional Support Chicken KAL

Never mind that I just wrapped Tour de Fleece and want to finish projects for an upcoming trip to Ireland. When a fiber friend hosts a knit-along, I’m hard-pressed not to join; especially when the knit-along is a chicken. EmoGirlKnits has been hosting this knit-along for the Emotional Support Chicken (Ravelry link) by The Knitting […]

CSM Headband

Y’all, I am beyond excited. Thanks to the format of the Yarn Social summer challenge, I’ve been giving into all the crafty whims. One of them has really paid off! I was looking at knit headbands in relation to my new Pathfinder character (long story!), and I found out that the cute twist ones were […]

Patterns for Mini Skeins

This will not come as a surprise to anyone who knows me even a little bit, but when Sewrella Yarn came out with a line inspired by the Disney Parks, I about lost my mind. I’m actually pretty proud I didn’t buy the whole shop. I made some concerted choices with specific patterns in mind, […]

Dean and Bean Crank-In 2023

I am coming to you from what I hope to be the tail end of a horrible mental health episode. I am fortunate to have supportive friends and family and access to care, so I’m doing a lot better. However, I’m still disappointed that I didn’t see the signs sooner. So, as I often say, […]

Recycled Stitch Markers

In many of my travels, I have had a dream. Most hotels have RFID card keys these days, and many of these key cards look so fancy. They could just be plain white cards, but most of them have fun or sophisticated prints on them. What cool stitch markers they’d make, I usually say. I […]