Booking Through Thursday – The Late Edition

What’s your favorite book that nobody else has heard of? You know, not Little Women or Huckleberry Finn, not the latest best-seller . . . whether they’ve read them or not, everybody “knows” those books. I’m talking about the best book that, when you tell people that you love it, they go, “Huh? Never heard [...]

Defeat the Winter Doldrums Dishcloth Swap Weekly Topic #1

Weekly Topic: Dishrag. Dishcloth. Face cloth. I’ve seen folks get all fired up in forums when someone refers to their knit or crochet creation as a dishrag, as that’s somehow offensive to them! When you’re working on yours, what do you call them? Also, is there a difference between a dishrag and a dishcloth? How [...]

I’m late as always, and a mini contest

Seems like lately I’m alway late for something. like meeting friends for lunch, knitting meetups, doctors appointments… However I have managed to stay on top of my knitting deadlines for swaps. I changed my mind yet again what I am making for my Loopy Ewe swap pal! Good thing is I’ll make [...]

This post is brought to you by Booking through Thursdays

I’ve always thought that I’d want to join in on Booking through Thursdays after seeing them on various blogs especially Marsha’s, but never did go through with posting my answers. Well, it’s a new year and here is my first Booking through Thursdays!
This week’s question is suggested by Puss Reboots:
How much do reviews (good [...]

"Defeat the Winter Doldrums" Dishcloth Swap Questionnaire

1. Do you knit, crochet, or do both? both
2. What types of needles do you enjoy using for making dishcloths? wooden, mostly bamboo but I can’t wait till my interchangable Harmony needles arrive!
3. What types of cotton do you enjoy using for making dishcloths? Is there any that you’ve been wanting to try? my favourite [...]

A mild case of Startistis

Before I go into what’s on my needles and such, I wanted to share with you a story that happened over the holidays. Well His Tallest knew that a swift was all I wanted for my Holiday gift and he didn’t want to pay a lot of money for something that he could make [...]

Putting the new in new year

Yeah I couldn’t think of a better fitting title, sorry about the cheese. I decided after finished the last eye cord strap for an everlasting bagstopper that I’d try something new. Now I have been thinking of trying entrelac for a while now because I have been drooling over the Entrelac socks that [...]

New Year Knitting Resolutions

So it being the first day of 2007, I thought I’d look forward to 2008 by setting some New Year knitting resolutions. Here we go

Cut down my stash by using stash yarn and I’m only aloud to by new yarn if I finish a project with stash yarn and only buy half or less [...]