Hello and happy Friday! I'm back from my trip and I brought back a knitting mistake to share! 🤣🤪 Only, I was too mad to remember to take a picture when it happened, so I recreated it as best I could for you. You know how every knit in the round pattern warns you to be careful not to twist the stitches? We've all done it at least once and ended up with a mobius strip. But have you ever managed to do it while knitting flat!?! Did you even know it was possible!?! I'm working on a tank top that...
15 days ago • 1 min read
Happy Friday!!!! I got so much creative work done this week! What was your week like? Are you saving up your craftiness for the weekend? Reply and tell me all about it! First, here's a picture of my Popcorn Ceiling cardigan. Remember popcorn ceilings? And the mess they left on your bunk bed when you scraped your head or feet on them? Bunk beds did make it easier to reattch your glow-in-the-dark stars every time they fell off! You know the stars on this cardigan glow in the dark. The glowing...
29 days ago • 1 min read
Hello! How has your week been? My week has been... how should I say it... eventful. 😬 To start with, Bruno had a botfly under his skin! It was disgusting and so sad. And it took some time for the vet to figure out what it was, so lots of cone time. I don't know if you can tell from photos, but Bruno has the neck of a giraffe. We tried a cone that was tiny enough to fit around his neck and he could reach right around it. Then we tried combining a stuffed donut with the little cone. No luck....
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey there! How are you!?! I’m feeling invigorated this week! I took last week off for a staycation. After a long, lazy summer, I had some housekeeping to do. Fall is my favorite season, and September through December are my busiest/funnest months of the year. I like to head into this time prepared, so I can really enjoy it. Chris and I spent the week cleaning, hanging art, setting up the bones of my art studio, and getting out Halloween decorations. And we topped it off with a concert! We saw...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hello! Friday again! How was your week? I have one more ear to put on my Cat Hat! Wait ‘til you see what I did. 🫣 When I took it out to finally finish, there were 3 sizes of needles in the project bag. And I, of all people, didn’t have a project sheet in there with the details! But I did remember taking a picture to show you my progress previously. So I got out the picture and all the needles in my project bag, and compared them! It actually worked!!! So then I started picking up the stitches...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello, and happy Friday! I hope you've had a good week! I did finish my cat hat, but I haven’t added the ears yet. 👎🏼 The ears are actually my favorite part of this pattern! I feel so clever because the ears stand up on their own and don't flop over after wearing it all day. You can see in the photo, I'm also starting to knit myself a box full of scrunchies. 🤣🤪 I've been wearing my hair in a high ponytail every day and alternating between two of my favorite scrunchies: one that matches my...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello! Another week has flown by! Did you work on anything fun this week? I started and almost finished my new Cat Hat sample. As you can see from my margin notes, I missed something right from the start. 🤣🤪 This pattern has a set up row where you add a couple of stitches after the ribbing and I completely forgot them! I thought to myself “it’s no big deal, I’ll just skip 2 decreases on the first decrease round.” Which I totally remembered to do. 💪🏼 But then when I was placing stitch markers...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey there! How has your week been? I’m feeling so much lighter this week. I finally did it. I broke up with the bamboo yarn for good. I’m so much happier. Now that I’m free to start something I actually want to make, I’m going to start a new sample of my Cat Hat. It’s due for a refresh in a different yarn. My plan is to use some leftover Germantown worsted that I have on hand. I’ll let you know how it goes next week. If you missed it last week, I made a new free resource for you. It’s called...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Hey there! How have you been? I hope you're getting more knitting done than I am! 🤣🤪 I'm just going to blame it on summer! I did do a different creative thing, though. I made you something! It's called The Rule Breaker's Permission Slip and Finishing Matrix. And it also has a Frog Log inside! My favorite part is the Finishing Matrix. It's a tool to help you decide just how much effort you should put into weaving ends, blocking, etc. for any particular project. You know I like to cut corners...
3 months ago • 1 min read