While in Toronto last week, I had the pleasure of visiting Lettuce Knits as per my usual. I love looking around the store and seeing the luxurious yarn – some of which is still hard to…

They are finished. One pair of socks in 7 days. A new record for me. And they are lovely. I used 2.25mm DPNs for these bad boys. I love the manly colour and they look especially…

Remember my gift rant from last post? Well, I felt a lot better once I talked about the reasons that I like gift knitting – and I think in some ways it was a little prayer…

There have been a lot of things happening on this home-front that have kept me a little under the weather so when I was thinking about Christmas knitting, I was getting even more down: Really? I…

I am feeling a little frustrated with the number of unfinished projects in my knitting basket. The number unfinished seem to be climbing and I am feeling a little overwhelmed. Part of the reason they are…

Gauge: approximately 5.5stitches per inch. Needles: 3.00mm circulars (at least 32” long – 24” circs and your stitches are all jumbled on top of each other) Yarn: Noro Silk Garden Sock (MC) and Knit Picks Palette…

I stumbled across these in the Fall 2010 issue of Vogue Knitting in an advertisement.  I had seen them before but it was actually my mom who mentioned how much she liked them. The Long Striped…