Teddy bears: Sometimes things happen for a reason
A few weeks ago, I started thinking about making teddy bears again. Back in 2011, as some of you will remember, the readers of this blog and I knitted teddy bears for an organization here in Central...
View ArticleSo, are you going to help us make bears?
On Thursday, I announced a project to make teddy bears for Grace Healthcare Services, an organization in Edison, NJ that provides comfort and palliative care to patients throughout Central Jersey. The...
View ArticleMonday was a very productive day
First, I want to say that I just discovered the post I wrote for Saturday with the information about where to send the bears and where to find more bear pattens didn't get posted as I thought. I just...
View ArticleDonating yarn to a good cause
On Monday, my friend Maria asked if I knew a good source of yarn for a group that knits snoods for a greyhound rescue. Among other suggestions, I told her I'd be glad to give her some yarn. She...
View ArticleFinished the Cable & Lace sweater
On Friday night, I finished knitting the second sleeve of the Cable & Lace sweater. On Saturday evening, I sewed the sleeves in and tried the sweater on. It fits really well It has negative ease...
View ArticleShopping my stash last night
The other day, I wrote about the new KAL/CAL on Ravelry in the prayer shawl group, and how I was going to make a purple shawl. I had two choices of worsted-weight yarn in my computer room, but no, I...
View ArticleBook review: ‘Free-spirit shawls,’ edited by Lisa Shroyer
Many knitters will remember a photo of Katherine, Dutchess of Cambridge, released in 2011, in which she was wearing a green knitted shawl on her way to the market. Designed by American design-house...
View ArticleBook review: “Scottish Knits” by Martin Storey
I have to say that I was thrilled to hear that Interweave was sending me a review copy of "Scottish Knits" by Martin Storey. Scottish Knits by Martin Storey is destined to be a classic. Last year,...
View ArticleAgonizing about the Smiley’s sale
This is the weekend that Smiley's, the yarn outlet in Queens, rents conference rooms in NJ hotels and fills them with yarn for sale. Yesterday, they were in Bergen County. Today, they will be at the...
View ArticleLucy’s shawl, my sweaters and other knitting news
Back in early September, I finished a prayer shawl in lavender as part of a prayer shawl knit-along on Ravelry. It was a lovely geometric pattern called the River Fog Shawl, knitted from point to point...
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