Project: Knitting a Shawl Like Tasha Tudor’s

I don’t think you’re supposed to keep the knitting urge when it’s Spring and the garden is growing, but I do still have the knitting urge, so that’s that.   I am a whim-follower.   This week, my whim is to knit a Tasha Tudor shawl.  Never mind that I’m knitting it in wool and we are [...]

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A Good Morning

I donned my favorite apron this morning.  

Apron donned, the first thing I did was sneak out my bedroom’s back door (God bless the builder who thought of that door) to check on the garden.  If I don’t sneak, I have 4 little people follow me out and then we get distracted and our day never starts with [...]

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A Handmade (by Children) Birthday

For our Little Gal’s recent birthday, we wanted to resist the temptation of giving her plastic toys that only cost $1 (bargain!) but that break within 24 hours (not a bargain!).  Still, we needed to give Little Gal something for her birthday. So we turned to the overflowing craft drawers/bins/shelves/baskets/closets and found things to make.  Everyone [...]

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Project: Knitting a Hot Pink Gift for a Little Sister

I walked into our girls’ room this morning to find the room had been picked up (check), the blinds were open (check), the sheets were taken off the bed for today’s laundry (check), and then…
I found this on the bed, next to an Easter hat and a pile of stuffed animals.

It looks like our 10 year [...]

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Shots: An Afternoon in Our Back Yard

Our Valentine’s Day didn’t go as planned, so we had to stay home instead of going to a skating party with friends. 
We had fun anyway…
(tip:  click on the photo titles at the bottom for peeking at individual photos)

1. Warmth & a Giggle, 2. A (future) Sweater, 3. Hockey Demo, 4. Flower the Pygmy Goat 5. Digging, 6. April [...]

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Ack! The Little Ones Want to Knit, Too

It makes me giggle to even entertain the notion that I can answer a knitting question with any degree of knowledge whatsoever.  I’m pretty new at knitting, having only just recently passed the knit 2 rows, frog 2 rows (“rip it, rip it”) stage.  But after yesterday’s post, someone asked this:
What age is best to start knitting?
The [...]

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Project: Tuesday Afternoon Knitting Class

Every Tuesday afternoon, if you’re at the right house at the right time, you’ll see a group of young ladies doing this:

Our 10 year old ballerina is on the left.  She’s knitting a blue hat for her little sister’s birthday next week.   I wish I had taken photos of her first attempts to show her how far she’s [...]

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A Knitted Hat

From a basket of inspiration…

…from this cotton yarn, these bamboo needles, a bit of dark chocolate, and (much) guidance from a knitting friend…

…comes my first knitting project that involves more than one type of stitch in one color of yarn.
(yes, I was a scaredy-cat for so very long)
It helps to have an admirer peeking at me.  He thinks I [...]

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