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Have any of you knit Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Baby Surprise Jacket? Secondly: Have any of you upsized it for a toddler? was it easy or was there some issues? I want to knit one for Abi from my handspun so any information is welcome.

Yes indeedy that is what I showed last night at LettuceKnits annual Boxing Day 30% off Yarn Sale. I came home with a pattern and a copy of Stephanie’s third book “Knitting Rules” which I have bought many times to give as a gift but hadn’t until now bought for myself. I spent just over [...]

I’m having a bit of a debate as to where I would like to go this year…There is talk of a bunch of us packing our wheels and heading off to SOAR but I’m also feeling tempted back to Rhinebeck (I’m trying to convince my parents it would be a nice family road trip). There [...]

It’s over for another year, the food has been et, the wrappings have been either recycled or used to start hearth fires and all is slowely getting back to a bit of normal… Once again we were up at my parents house for the celebrations. My Mum and Dad were happy to have another little [...]

Have you been keeping and eye on the Google Logo for the past few days? Go click on it to have a look at the past few days. Makes a knitter smile.

I apologize for what I’m about to say…the following may be a bit controversial… BRIARROSE FIBERS SHIPS TO CANADA NOW!!!!!!!!! For some of you this may be a “um..ok…why is this big news?” moment and that’s okay, I don’t expect everyone to *get it*, but for those of us who saw and felt these fabulous [...]

I’m distracting myself from some last minute Holiday preparations by figuring out a knitting plan for this year…I want to try to knit through a portion of my stash…I seem to have accumulated a fair amount of yarn (mostly sock and lace weight?!) over the past year and a bit. I have a theory that [...]

The other night the Man discovered that Sky One in the UK made an adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s the HogFather!!!! To put some more icing on the proverbial cake the BBC is going to be releasing a bunch of episodes of the original Dr Who, Red Dwarf and some other shows who I’m forgetting right [...]

I decided to stay home from the LettuceKnit Party last night because I found as the afternoon wore on and my spinning Zen wore off I was starting to get that wound up Christmas Snarl sensation that generally means I should seclude myself for the protection of others. However there is a bit of a [...]

Last night Jen, Denny and I got together at Lorraine‘s house for a spin in. It was a great time and I learned (and have forgotten a chunk of it already) a whole bunch of stuff from Lorraine about twist, drafting and the OHS course and I finally got to use the new wheel (love [...]