Yarn addict, dog lover, photoholic.
Shelley Stone from the Palouse Yarn Company (and owner of my favorite yarn store, The Yarn Underground) needed some swatches for the Big Sky Fiber Arts Festival. I volunteered, and together we brainstormed to come up with this pattern. I fleshed out the final details and knit it up in early June in time for Shelley to take it to the festival. She liked the pattern so much, she asked
Just put the final touches on my sister’s Forest Fairytale Mittens so that I can pop them in the mail this morning. Took a little longer than it should have to complete this project but I’ve been on a major gardening/landscaping binge since March. Now that all the plants are in and thriving, I’m back on the needles and on a mission to finish up my unfinished projects! The impetus
Last fall I received a request to make a special hat for the daughter of a friend. The mom loved the owl hats I made for PCEI’s Animals of the Night event and asked if I could make one for her daughter, Molly, who loves owls. She also asked if I could make it in a particular combinations of colors. I loved the result and so did Molly!
Sometimes the spark of an idea can quickly get out of hand resulting in a project of extreme detail and time consumption, the Latah Trail Beanie being a perfect case in point. I wanted to do another stranded knitting project but this time without the intarsia+stranded+double-sided insanity of the Latah Trail Beanie. 😉 Still, I wanted to make it extra special since it would be for my father-in-law’s milestone birthday
I blame Ravelry and The Yarn Underground. Last January I saw an adorable pattern for owl hats on Ravelry. Soon after The Yarn Underground had an amazing sale on bulky yarn. Next thing I know, I had two large shopping baskets full of Baby Alpaca Grande and was trying to figure out how I was going to get it all home. (Luckily, a fellow knitter came to my rescue and
