Happy Autumn! Yesterday was the first day of fall and the Pacific Northwest decided to play nice and be quite fall-like. The leaves are changing colors, the morning fog has rolled in. It’s my...
As a new knitter, several years ago, I was more prone to acquiring stash because it was there than acquiring because I had a project in mind. This pile of a now-discontinued yarn is one of my many...
When Amanda and Andrea showed up for Yarn Train 2016, I was greeted with a very lovely addition to my stash…before even going shopping! Andrea had brought me eight absolutely gorgeous skeins...
Summer is the season of weddings! (Let’s just ignore the fact I got married in October :D). I was invited to a June wedding by a good pole friend. With all the weddings in the last couple of...
It’s no secret that I really like elephants. Early in my knitting career, I saw the Water for the Elephants pattern by Yvette Noel and knew that I needed to knit it. This was before I...
The three of us are all in a group on Ravelry that does bi-monthly knit-a-longs (KALs) which correspond to a theme, and have several options for the pattern to be knit. In this case, the KAL theme is...