Just a little knitting…

Knitting stuff first! California Revival Collection:  Add Sanguine Gryphon, Woolen Rabbit and possibly Becoming Art to the list of gorgeous yarn for the patterns.  The Quatrefoil fingerless mitts are being tested.  The Peacock Shawl in the Blue Sky Alpacas Melange...

California Revival Collection: Update

This is one of those ideas that has rapidly expanded in range and number of projects — so much so I may do parts 1 & 2.  This collection, I must add, was supposed to be the smaller of the two I want to  to do this year. What do you have to look forward...

DIP: Quatrefoil Mitts

One of the stranded patterns for the California Revival Collection is going to be a pair of mitts (full & fingerless options) with a geometric quatrefoil pattern. There’s a Wikipedia entry for quatrefoil.  You can see some images here, via Google. ...

Living Smaller…

We have a relatively small house, 916 or so square feet, compared to the national average of around 2300 square feet.  But our house was of average size when it was built in 1928, and would’ve had a family of 3 or 4 living in its 2 bedrooms and one bath. It...

Beginning of April Round Up

I know I just did a summary for the tail end of March, but some things have changed.  The summer sweater for Knitcircus is on its way to Jaala. The ill-fated-so-far cardi is now on hold.  It’s now a miss on the yarn/project match up.  I think the design is...