Tangled Yoke Cardigan

Yes, I know I’m a bad blogger. I finished this last week, and I’m just now posting. But it was also my last week of classes, so I wanted to get everything for school finished up before I blogged.
I finished my Tangled Yoke Cardigan in time to wear it to my last class [...]

March Chainmail vest – dyed and ready to go

Well, I’ve finally finished up my chainmail-inspired vest. I combined Eunny Jang’s Ivy League Vest pattern from IK Winter 2007 and a chainmail motif I designed inspired by EZ’s March Chainmail vest from the Knitter’s Almanac.

Yarn: Knit Picks Palette in grass, green and natural, 2 skeins each.
Needles: Size 5 Options.
Mods: I [...]

Fuzzy Feet #1

Nothing is as satisfying as a super-quick knit that keeps your toes toasty.

I knit these with Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Worsted in a pale heather gray on size 10 1/2 needles, using the magic loop method. They knit up very fast, the felting turned out fabulous. I used t-shirt puffy paint to add [...]

presenting… my first handspun

After getting together my fiber, spindle and a how to spin book last week, I set about to create my first handspun. My first two attempts turned out as tangled messes. It takes a few tries to figure out how to spin the spindle properly, and how to pre-draft and draft the fiber. [...]