Jill’s Shrug is Finished!

Gosh, I hope she likes it! Last December she requested a black shrug, form fitting, with a tie. I chose the Cabled Shrug from the Summer ’2005 Interweave Knits staff project. I discovered that knitting with black yarn can make you crazy. Good light is _IMPORTANT._ And I also found out, _after_ I finished the…

My Baby Girl Turns 6

My baby girl turned 6 years old this week. We had her party last Saturday. The weekend before, she had asked me to teach her to knit with 2 needles, not with the Knifty Knitters anymore. So, her big 8 year old sister, BooHopper, helped me teach her (We also put on the Knitty Gritty…

I would Dye for you, Mom

Mom handed me 4 hanks of KnitPicks Dye-Your-Own yarn (part of the line now called _Bare_), and requested that I dye them for her before she leaves for vacation. She gave them to me a week ago, and they leave Sunday(day after tomorrow) _early_ in the morning. So of course the procrastinator in me (or…