I’m not letting myself get stressed out this year. Maybe that’s why I still haven’t finished the second pair of fingerless mitts. I have people coming over tomorrow to decorate some cookies (which haven’t been baked yet), tomorrow night we go to a friend’s house to do gingerbread houses, I haven’t wrapped a single present, [...]

I decided to make this lovely little scarf because I thought it was beautiful AND I happened to have a skein (or 4 – in different colors, of course) laying around in my stash.   My friend is turning 40 this week and I think it is a lovely little gift.  However, do you see [...]

That’s what I said all the way up to October.   Then I got the bright idea of making dishcloths and soap sacks for the girls’ teachers.  At this point, I thought I was done knitting Christmas gifts.  Along came the Knit Picky‘s Thanksgiving Sale.  The bag I had wanted for a year was on sale.  [...]

Would knew that after almost 2 years of knitting, I would finally get around to making my first washcloth.  After deciding I’m not knitting for family this year, I got inspired to make washcloths and soap sacks as teacher gifts.  Each girl has a teacher and assistant teacher.  I’m proud to say, they all have [...]