On Tuesday, I and several hundred other PDX area knitters spent an enjoyable evening with the Yarn Harlot!
I didn’t win the Oregonian’s contest to tag along when they interviewed her, but I did get an honorable mention –

A few people suggested the Oregon Zoo, but Tess Mattos had the best slant on that idea. She’d take [...]

I really shouldn’t be allowed to knit late at night.
When I left off last time, I was trying to convince myself that I didn’t have to start the wrap cardigan over, that the upper back was not too wide.  OK, OK, I knew deep down that it was, but I didn’t want to hear it.
So, this [...]

OK, I’m probably crazy to do this again after the last one, but here goes with another series of Playing Lessons.
This time, though, I’ll be designing the thing myself, so any issues will be mine and mine alone.  (However, this is not guaranteed to cut down on the drama factor.  More than likely, the opposite.)
The original [...]

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 [...]

This weekend, I taught a class on "Fixing Mistakes," and was gratified to see several new-ish and/or returning knitters becoming much more confident about their knitting abilities.  I truly find that rewarding – as you may have gathered, knitting has been a passion of mine for over 20 years, and I love to expand other knitters’ horizons.
These knitters had [...]

So, while I haven’t been blogging much in the past week or so, I really have been busy.
One of the things I’ve been working on is a sock pattern for my friend Deb, whose blog lives over at www.fearlessfibers.blogspot.com.  She dyes bee-you-tee-full yarn and sells it on Etsy  – which if you haven’t visited is a very fun [...]

What a week it has been.  I had a birthday, so I took a few days off — DH had the flu, so he did too.  Is it just me, or is it darned near impossible to get anything done when your husband is home?  So, not much posting going on.
Last week I did fix [...]

In no particular order, here’s some great pix I’ve received of bear mittens, in response to the free Polar Bear Pattern offer!!
 

In case you still haven’t heard, here’s the short scoop: 
There are bears in China that need mittens.  (For a full explanation, please see the previous posts in this series.)
The Oregon Zoo and the yarn shop [Twisted [...]