As a knitter “down south”, people ask me this all the time! What are your favorite plant based yarns? Believe me, the list is constantly swelling and shifting as I try new products and new blends. Here are my Top 5 at the moment. 1. DAPPLE Dapple is the magical new product from Brooklyn Tweed….
I’ve always been a little obsessed with heavy weight socks. It started when I began teaching sock knitting back home in Ontario. It seemed…
We all like the good stuff, but yarn is a lot like wine. If you’ve got 100 bucks, it’s pretty easy to get a…
It’s that time of year again! I love summer knitting and I love the transition from winter to summer fibers. Suddenly, my world is…
Life’s funny. I find it ironic that I found a great Canadian yarn way down here in Louisiana! I was shopping around at Miss…
Since my creative focus this year is on publishing new designs, I’ve had the opportunity to try some great new yarns lately. Most are…
Do you remember knitting your first pair of socks? Chances are that, like me, that first sticky, sweaty sock was knitted with great endeavor…
Remember this? I knit this back in February when I first got back from New Orleans. Carl had just returned from a trip to…
Sock Blanks. How could I not know about this? The other day, while watching one of my favorite video podcasts, Little Bobbins, it became…
Well, hellooooo! So happy you made it to the new and improved site! Thanks for your patience while I get things sorted…I know that…
I’ve loved angora yarn ever since I was a little kid. So fluffy and so soft, so luxurious and so adorable on little girls….
Finally, I’ve managed to wish it up…a real, live heat wave! I couldn’t be happier; I’m really only comfortable about 6 days out of…
Little did Kelly know when she admired Mary Hancock-Richens “Missoni Inspired Scarf” that we’d end up having such a darn good time with it!…
About a year or so ago, I heard a female political commentator talking about North American economic recovery. I can’t remember how she was…
Isn’t it amazing what can be done with one little skein of sock yarn? Maybe it’s the put-up, usually 395 – 450 yards per…
