A shameless Allman Brothers reference, and another guest post by the fabulous TrishC!
(Unsurprisingly, though, I couldn’t help throwing in a couple of editorial comments along the way.  TH)

Tess and I were chatting one day about how we got started knitting, and we discovered some strange coincidences.
At first, it didn’t seem as if there could be [...]

Due to personal reasons,
Sandi has cancelled the Wednesday night "Knit Night"
at Farmhouse Knit Shop
for the rest of March and April 2008.
 
Watch this space for more info on when Knit Night will resume!

Over the weekend, I had a touch of  "the depression" *.
Specifically, I had the knitting depression.
I didn’t have a single decent current project, the UFOs were one big pile o’ crap, I hated everything in my hotlist **.

I HAD NOTHING TO KNIT.

If this sounds to you a bit like closet angst (I HAVE NOTHING TO WEAR), you [...]

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, [...]

Don’t forget!!
  
Thursday, March 20, is "Won’t You Wear a Sweater?" Day, in honor of what would have been Mister Rogers‘ 80th birthday (Fred Rogers died in 2003 of stomach cancer).
"Mr. McFeely" (David Newell) appears in a video made for the occasion, which is available at youtube as well as the link above, and it’s worth watching if only for the [...]

OK, here we are, finally.  It’s done!  And, I’m pretty darned happy with it.  Although admittedly, I picked a real lulu for the first set of Playing Lessons!
(I didn’t do it on purpose, I swear.  Really, I’m usually more lazy than this.)
"Lulu" is the perfect term to describe this project, it turns out, because it has several [...]

As part of "fun weekend", DH and I went and visited a place on the other side of the river, called "SCRAP".

SCRAP — The School and Community Reuse Action Project – is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our mission is to promote creative reuse and environmentally sustainable behavior by providing educational programs and affordable materials to the [...]

I’m pleased to announce that my first "cheater" bear mitten is completed!!
These things are BIG.  I happened to have my once-a-day can of Coke with me, so I included it in the picture for scale.
The only reason it is already completed is because, as I admitted in the previous post, I knit the midsection on a [...]

It’s Saturday night of our designated "Fun Day", and DH is out at a buddy’s house watching college tournament hockey, drinking beer and eating crap.
What am I doing?  I’m turning my studio into a bear mitten factory.
Yes, that IS my idea of fun.
We stopped by the OR Zoo today, and of course I went to [...]

Wow, what a difference a couple of weeks makes!  Here’s what’s happened since we last saw our friend, the Nutcracker sweater…
Bodice knitting:  finished.
FI panel:  about a million ends woven in.
Hems & facing:  sewn down.  Stitching down the hem took a while, because it had to be redone a couple of times to get it to properly [...]

Hey, you can’t say I don’t have persistence.
This little gem has literally taken me something like 5 years to finish.
To be fair, there was more than the usual amount of knitting involved.  I did knit the entire thing once, and then reknit the top half; but then I got to cheating and for the third [...]