Knit, Blog & Be Happy!

Many of us will be traveling this summer, whether by car, train or plane.  As we move into the “travel” season, it is a good time to cover some travel tips for taking our knitting or crochet projects with us. Select a project that is easy for you to work on while traveling. You might be chatting with friends or need to pick the project up and put it down numerous times. This is not the time for intricate charts or involved stitch patterns. Take a project that is light in color. The lighting on planes and in hotel rooms tends...

So I spent the weekend cleaning some things out in my home and one of my favorite things to go through is my stash.  I do not keep a big stash, except for all of the yarn at 490 Lighthouse, but I do go through it at least once a year. So here are my very rules for cleaning out my stash:I empty everything on to my dining room table – Every bin, every project bag and every little bit of leftover yarn. Then I arrange all of the yarn by weight.  That allows me to look at each skein and make some quick...

When I saw the test knitting call for Isabel Kramer’s newest shawl, SSP, go out on Instagram, I knew the project would find its way onto my needles. The shawl is designed in 6 sections, using different slip stitch patterns or stripes in each section. Once the large first section is done; it is on to the party!     The project was designed with Brooklyn Tweed Loft in mind and I thought that I would use the original colors for the project.  As always, I peeked through the complete SSP project on Ravelry and spied Stanetty’s shawl. I thought...

I recently put up an Instagram post that got a lot of attention. While watching the Olympics I messed up a cable cross on my Amelia Sweater. (I did it twice, but who is counting?) I make a habit of putting my work down every 20 rows or so to look at the overall piece. You can catch a lot of mistakes before you get too far along. Unfortunately, I did not take a photo of the mistake itself, but trust me it was there. If a mistake is huge I will rip back the necessary number of rows. But...

  I really enjoy the Winter Olympics: Skiing, skating, short track speed skating, ski jumping and snowboarding. I love it all. So how in the heck did the start of the games sneak up on me this year?   Normally, a few weeks before the Olympics I would set up a knit-a-long for you all to join.  I would have put it in the newsletter and on social media and, and, and , and – Well, this year I didn't even think about it. Just because I didn't have my ducks in a row, we can still have some fun, right?...