• Part II: Those Ponchos

    My friend, Jess, knit an amazing poncho recently and it looks AH-Mazing on her. Amazing. It suits her shape and silhouette perfectly. So I decided to knit on too! It totally felt like that moment on…

  • Part I: Sweater Reflections

    I’ve been knitting a lot of sweaters lately. Over the past couple of years, I haven’t spent much time sweater knitting. Instead, I’ve worked on shawls, cowls and socks. I’ve made a couple of poncho-style sweaters…

  • A Sweater by Any Other Name …

    A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don’t put into it. ~ Marilyn Monroe That pretty much sums up this sweater. It was a (cliché, I know) labour of love.…

  • Mammoth of a project. For real.

    There is something very satisfying about clearing off the needles and finishing up projects that have languished a long time. One of those projects is this one but not because it was on the needles for…

  • Episode 35 :: Socks

    Thank you for joining me this week! I have a pair of handspun socks finished, as well as a fresh spin on my wheel. I also chat about a sweater that I started last week and…

  • the aftermath.

    It is difficult to write about this sweater because it has gone on for a very long time. I started this back in the fall with high hopes of finishing it quickly but I became distracted…

  • mallard blue.

    I am hooked on seamed sweaters. Like really hooked. They are brilliant. And so fast. I knit this in about 10 days! I’ve had this yarn languishing in the my stash, which was originally meant for…