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 [...]

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 [...]

Here we are again –  and believe it or not, progress is being made.  We are up to the Fair Isle panel, which is the most complex part of the whole thing.  Keep breathing.
There are a couple of things we need to address here.  One is the yarn substitutions I made — i.e. the color changes [...]

Or to put it another way, the Turn of the Screw.  Emphasis squarely on the word "screw".
Because get ready, kids — here’s where it all falls apart.  Or at least it gets a whole lot more complicated.  Turns out I picked a real doozy to start off the Playing Lessons with…!  But let’s not get ahead [...]

The most important piece of knitting advice I ever found was in the Holiday ‘87 issue of Vogue Knitting.  (I must have found it while I was knitting those lousy boyfriend sweaters.)
A wonderful knitter wrote a letter to the editor which made a very strong impression on me, and it greatly influenced my knitting success.  In [...]

Anyone remember this?
Ahem.  OK, I admit I’ve been stalling a bit.  Last time, I said I was going to address the fitting issues, which leads me straight to a couple of my personal bugaboos.
Let’s just state right up front that I have dinky arms.  They are so short, I can shop in the Petite section and [...]

Q. When is a picture NOT worth a thousand words?
 
A.  When it is a BFL (Big Fat Lie).  
One of my biggest knitting peeves is photography in knitting publications that is a deliberate misrepresentation of the article in question.  (A close second is "artsy" photography, at the expense of seeing what the garment actually looks like.)
The most [...]

OK, I found my next exciting project. #29 from the recent VK Hol 2007. This sweater is so freakin’ sassy, I can’t believe it. Faux fur & satin pockets!
Actually, I like almost every sweater in this layout, which is a refreshing change – in the past couple of years I’ve spent more time going [...]

Many of my knitting friends know that I love, love, LOVE old knitting books. Old VKs are a fave, but I’ll thumb through just about anything. (And I have the overflowing bookshelf in my studio to prove it.) Often you can find a stitch pattern, a silhouette, or a detail that will spark an idea. [...]

So, you may have noticed that in the previous post, I said that my sister was knitting a sweater for her fiance.
YIKES! but what about the famous, infamous Sweater Curse? 
I didn’t know about the Sweater Curse then: I was only 6, after all. The Curse didn’t work on her though, because my sister did get [...]