Issues with Knitting

I washed some fleece this weekend.  It all started at knit night, when Isa brought it some Shetland fleece she'd got for free. Another...

A graceful fail is what you want your software to do. For example, instead of giving me the blue screen of death, when an application on my...

This has been the most stubborn, dastardly cold I've had in quite some time. Each time I thought I was feeling better, I would do a bit ...

Not the best week for yours truly. I got sick, yes, with the sore throat and the tender noggin and the sniffly slimey yech. And my 3mm Add...

Its a long weekend in Ontario. Family day is a new holiday for us, so we don't have any traditions for it at our house. This year we de...

Contrary to popular opinion of black being THE best color for a cool hat for boys, my son picked this iridescent yarn by Caper sock yarn cal...

Hello bloggies! It's been too long. Work has been keeping me at the computer and so in my down time, I stay away from it. But this weeke...

Do you know who is teaching in London Ontario this weekend? My local yarn store, Cotton-By-Post, is hosting the Yarn Harlot for the whole ...

My Silk Garden pullover has grown into a lovely rectangle of both front and back: I'm now on the sleeves. I've already had to k...

Yesterday was Roc Day , the last of the Christmas season festivities, so my spinning buddy Alica and I headed out to the Little Red Mitten ...

Okay, so it's not knitting, but we're all grown ups here. We can apprecate good fiber art when we see it: Crochetdermy .

Guess what I got for Christmas? Yarn!! Okay, true confession time. I've always wanted a Silk Garden sweater, so I told Jim that was wh...

Christmas Eve we hosted Jim's family for the annual clan gathering. Our house was warmed with 24 souls. A fraction of our group: What...

If you were asked to make a gawd-awful ugly Christmas sweater for a teenager, what would you do? London knitter Lisa decided to go all ou...

Found these two criminals hanging out in the hall at the Vintage Green . I don't think my mother-in-law knows that they let such riff...

This past Saturday a local spinning pal and I went on a road trip to Mount Albert to take the intermediate spinning class at Gemini Fibers ...

Here's how I spin yarn: Spin the singles. Critically evaluate every inch for consistency, but fail to take a sample to check against. ...

In the waiting room at the doctor's office this afternoon, I was knitting a sock which was noticed by my cohabitants. A woman older than...

Jim and I went away this weekend to celebrate our mutual November birthdays. It was sunny and peaceful up until we got home to find that the...

Tonight the sheep specters will descent upon the hills of heathered hanks to give fine fibers to all the knitters who believe in gauge sw...