Sundays are for….

This and this. I have been hard at work knitting. I have started many projects and finished few. The failures, as frustrating as they may be, I am taking as a learning opportunity, and pushing right along. Soon I will have another completed project to show.

A Knit Top for Lucy

 Last night I finished the top I was knitting for Lucy. This is major. It is my first (completed) knitted article of clothing, and really the only thing I have ever finished other than a few measly dish cloths. This is the pattern I used from Ravelry. I will probably do it again in [...]

Grilled Cheese and Yarn

I can’t stop taking pictures. All of my free time (all four minutes of it) today has been spent snapping pictures of the most mundane things, not that grilled cheese or knitting is mundane, but you know what I mean. Oh yes, I picked up the knitting needles again! I never did finish my three [...]

3 Hour Sweater – Back

Last night I finished the back piece to the three hour sweater. As you can see from the picture above, it wasn’t my first try. The first time around was full of mistakes. When I got to the top ribbing I totally dropped the ball, but decided to keep going, experimenting with different stitches. I [...]

Knit, knit, knit

Today was our first Fall like day. The temperature cooled, it rained, the wind blew, and I loved it. Fall always comes so late here in Southern California, so I try to relish this early Autumnal weather before it heads back up to 80° for the weekend. It has been ages since I last knit. [...]

Mothers Day Gift

Last weekend I decided to try my hand at canning. My mom dabbled a bit in canning when we were growing up, but until recently it never even crossed my mind as something to do. I did some researching online and after buying a huge bag of mangoes last weekend for 20 cents a piece, [...]

Knit Snuggie

Yesterday my sister and I got together for lunch, during which we decided to spend the afternoon crafting.  I have been wanting to make some knit or crocheted dishcloths for my kitchen, so we went to the fabric store to buy yarn and needles. When I worked for Michael’s eight or so years ago I [...]