Yarn, stories and sometimes stories about yarn
I'm brand new to the "Once upon a sock" posts, but as an avid sock knitter, I'm thrilled to join in the fun. This year for Christmas my mother requested knee socks. Actually, I had to coerce her into it. You'd never meet someone less enthusiastic about receiving hand-knit socks than my mother. She's an [...]
Many times when I'm planning a vacation or work trip, I'll do some research ahead of time to locate the yarn stores and decide which ones I want to visit. And other times, I consciously steer clear of the temptation to fill any spare room in my luggage with yarn by not doing any research [...]
Today is November 30th, which means that writers and knitters around the world are making a last frantic push to reach their 50,000 goal.Eight years ago I successfully participated in NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. Every November, would-be novelists sign up on the site and pledge to write 50,000 words during the month. That's [...]
Next week I've got a business trip to California, which will involve a good amount of time in airports and airplanes (I live on the east coast, and quite a distance from a major metro airport at that), so I needed a smallish project to take with me that would involve a) minimal/simple pattern repeats, [...]
This past Friday I was finally able to pick up my knitting again after more than a week of letting it idle. The Bare Branches sweater is coming along nicely, with the back and one front panel completed and some good progress on the second front panel. But that means I still have two sleeves, [...]
