-I put the shawl to soak this morning. First, I rinsed out the dye bucket because I last used it to dye cotton and I was worried about soda ...

(This is partly cross-posted from a board on Ravelry. If you've already seen it, my apologies.) The only reason magazines exist is to ma...

Hot off the needles. That's my foot in there for scale. I hope to have it dyed and blocked by the end of the weekend. HopeIhopeIhope.

I dearly love archeology. Especially when it shows that as a group, we haven't changed much at all. Case in point? The world's oldes...

That's about $40 worth of ribbon she's laying in. I did not drag her out by her scruff, because I didn't want to tangle the ribb...

After two and a half hours of binding off, I have bound off sixteen of the forty-eight wedges in the pattern. Yeah. Maybe I'll finish to...

The shawl. Yup. Probably gonna take two days, but the endless rounds are DONE!!! I should get some champagne. Hmmm.

Since there seems to be a rumor going around that I wouldn't know a good design if it bit me on the, uh, nose. Here is the dress from Vo...

I am halfway through the last round of the shawl and at the least will begin casting off today. Yay! Thanks to everyone for the advice, yest...

Because I can't shut up today. I'm on the last round of the shawl. I hope to begin binding off tomorrow. Tonight I'm celebrating...

Well. Just got a love note from Nanette Lapore (the one who designed the halter dress in super-bulky with holes in it) and apparently she...

It is almost a good day. (Although the Goob just peed on the floor. Hence the 'almost'.) I am halfway through round 204. There is on...

This is an actual dilemma for me, at the moment, though it's not keeping me up at night or anything. Opinions from one and all, welcome....

I promised Bells a tutorial on this, and it's useful, so here you go. I assume everyone knows the basic long-tail cast on method. If you...

Yesterday was lovely. We all had a good time, the food all made it to the table at the same time, the food was good (except for the roast, w...

You can get to my Etsy shop here . There's a link in the sidebar, but if I'd had it together the other day I'd have realized a l...

We're celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, so the last two days have been spent cleaning and cooking. The most horrific excess of the last...

Since it's getting a lot of comments... I did it originally as just something silly (you know, like there's a 98% chance my cat is t...

I know. Height of optimism, re-listing my stock in the middle of a massive recession. But my Knitty article goes live on/about December 1, a...

I love it so. No. Really. Your result for The Find Your Philosophical Era! Test... The Post-Modern 19% Ancient, 6% Medieval, 31% Modern and ...