Well, life has been happening with a vengeance around our house the past few days.  So you’ll have to forgive me for just throwing out a couple of updates here.
First of all, there are a few spots left in the Knitting 911 class this Thursday night at Knitting Bee.  This class is always a lot [...]

Straight from Sandi’s keyboard –

Dear Friends:
It is official!!!  The Farmhouse Knit Shop will be closing its doors.  All stock in the shop will be 50% off beginning Friday, May 15, 2009, and I will continue to clear all the inventory until it is gone.
The decision to close has mostly to do with the [...]

Sorry gang!  I did indeed speak too soon, and the cardigan knitalong will indeed have to be postponed.
In fact, at the moment I can’t reschedule it either — so let’s call it "cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances".
Sigh.  Didn’t mean to disappoint.  My apologies!
 

Update 5-2-09:  Uh-oh.
Houston, we may have a scheduling problem.  Don’t swatch anything just yet…  

OK, OK.  I said we’d start the next sweater knitalong in May, didn’t I?
So, NEXT FRIDAY, May 8th, we will kick off another one.
We’ll start with a gauge swatch, complete a schematic (ahem), and do the math to make your very own [...]

New Farmhouse Knit Shop Hours:
Sunday through Friday, 10 – 6; closed Saturday
(For more info such as location and classes, please click here.)

For about half of the "Magnificent 7 Guinea Pigs" group, one of the big fit issues was how to fit a sweater for a generous bust without it becoming a gunny sack.
OK, I have basically no background in the generous bust department.  But we’ve all been giving it our best shot, and successfully, too!  Here’s [...]

It’s already time to sign up for the SPRING SESSIONS of the Garden Home Rec Center group knitting classes!
Boy, that winter term went by quickly — it was a little on the short side because we got a late start, due to me being on that trip to New Zealand.  But the spring sessions are a [...]

I’ve just posted a new schedule for the Friday Group Classes, so if you’re involved in that, please take a look here.
I checked all the near-term vacation dates that have been sent to me, and the only date in the near future when everyone will be around is 3/20 — so that’s the day we [...]

OK, I admit it’s been a couple of weeks, and I still have not fixed the collar on my top-down V-neck raglan from the Friday group class knit-along.  Part of that is due to a whole lot of teaching going on, and part of that is due to another sock pattern I am designing for [...]

And if you need yourself a little Easter Basket, here’s the ticket!
I’ll be teaching this mobius-handled basket at the Knitting Bee in early March.  It goes amazingly quickly, so you’ll have plenty of time to whip up one or more before the holiday.  Among other things, you’ll learn how to do a provisional cast-on — [...]

The top-down rust raglan that I knit for the Friday Group Class knit-along was finished last Friday (or so I thought).
I picked up around the neckline and knit simple K2, P2 for a polo style collar.  (Turns out that isn’t going to work so well — but more about that in a minute.)
The moment of [...]

Hey!  You!  the one who was thinking about signing up for the Garden Home Rec Center knitting class!  It’s time to GET ON THE STICK!  (heh heh, little knitting pun there)
Both of the winter classes have exactly four knitters signed up — and we really need at least five knitters in a class for it to run.  (We’ve [...]

Even though I’m in New Zealand, I still have to get some work done.  Or rather, I need to do some stuff that I didn’t get done before I left.  Ha!  Now I can call the trip a "business expense", heh heh.
OK, maybe not the kayaking parts.
It turns out that it’s very hard for me [...]

It fits!

Wow, does it fit!
These may be the very least baggy armholes I have ever knit for myself.
 And — lest you think this is some kind of freak accident that was bound to happen someday if I just kept knitting long enough — looky, it pretty much matches the sweater I was trying to copy.

 
 
Attention [...]

As anyone who has been reading lately knows, the Friday Group class regulars decided that they wanted to do a top-down raglan sweater, knit-along style.
Only thing is, they are all different shapes and sizes — being that they are human beings and all.
And yet, they still all wanted ones that fit properly.
Picky, picky.
Enter moi, with [...]

Last Friday was our first top-down sweater knitalong class, and I’m so tickled with my Friday knitters, I just have to tell you.
I’ve got seven — count ‘em, SEVEN — knitters who are going to knit a top-down sweater along with me!!  It will be a project extending over a few months, so watch this [...]

I’ve spent all afternoon mapping out the next 6 months’ worth of Friday Group Class Tutorials.  And wow, that took a lot out of me.
So go take a look — one of the more exciting things we’re going to try is that I’ll be starting a "Sweater Series" of tutorials, which will be a knitalong [...]

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, or so they say.  And they are right.
I figured out something very wrong with my blog today — more specifically, with the way I set things up here.
First, some quick background info:  In  the wonderful modern online world, if you have a public blog and if you post [...]

Aaaah, fall has arrived:  the kids are back in school, football is about to start, and that means it’s prime knitting time again!!
So, just a brief note to let you know that I’ve just updated all the class pages for my upcoming fall knitting classes:
The Knitting Bee page has been updated with some newly scheduled [...]

Hey, there – just a quick plug today, for my pal Deb’s mini-sock club that she’s just unveiled!
(ed. note — it’s not a club for mini-socks, it’s a mini-club for full-size socks.)
It’s a set of three different sock yarn + original pattern combos, with the second pattern being designed by Yours Truly.  Deb is doing the [...]

Hey there!  not much to say here — I’ve been working on an overhaul of the class listings page.  It has undergone some biiiiiiiig changes that I hope will make it much, much easier for you to find what you are looking for.
I’ve sorted all the classes by location, with a separate page for each place that I teach.  Whew!  [...]

Finally, I got my act together and have made up a schedule of tutorial subjects for the Friday Group Class for the next few months.  Click on the link above to see it — you should see a permanent link to it in the sidebar to the right also, although I had to refresh my browser a few [...]

Due to the holiday weekend, the Friday morning Group Class will not be held on 5/23.
Hope everyone has big plans to get lots of knitting done!  I’ll have some car time to kill, so I hope to put in some serious knitting hours.
We’ll resume Friday class on 5/30.
 
Happy Knitting!

Hey, the class listing page has been updated with lots of new goodies!  There’s a short-but-sweet gauge workshop, a class on fixing mistakes, and of course the ever-popular Continental knitting.
I tend not to do project classes as much as technique classes — my goal is to educate & encourage knitters to be in charge of their own [...]

It’s that time again!
For those interested in group knitting classes at Garden Home Rec Center, spring term classes will be starting the week of April 7th. 

In a small group setting, learn to knit, or bring any project for help. Bring size 8 needles and a smooth medium weight yarn to first class or bring your project in progress (pattern, [...]

A brief announcement, to remind anyone who is interested in the group classes at Garden Home Rec Center:  they start this week!  on Monday evenings and Wednesday mornings.
The Wednesday class currently does not have enough people registered in it for the class to run, so if you were thinking about signing up, now is the time…  it will [...]