My mother started a Christmas ornament collection for me when I was less than a year old. Every year she would add to it, and my grandparents also contributed. When I married and had my own Christmas tree, I had a large set of ornaments ready to go. My mother was smart. I’ve given my children a Christmas ornament every year…
I had some time all to myself one recent weekend while the men took a winter campout. I took charge of the remote control and watched a fascinating Marie Curie documentary and knitted. I decided that it was time to make dishcloths. Almost an annual ordeal, my dishcloths literally get worn out. I like to use a…
Since we traveled over Christmas, I had to get my ducks in a row before we left. Fortunately, I had seen a pattern for knitting with scraps of yarn. (it is in this book) My version is pictured here. Sometimes, when they were very young, my kids didn’t have pockets, or didn’t have enough pockets,…
I was knitting a ho-hum dishcloth, and used it twice already within a week. I need to replace my current supply badly. I made t-shirt yarn for this last dishcloth. I’ll review that another time, in order to write right now about something more exciting — fingerless gloves. My daughter has been part of a teen book…
Experiment time from last week: homemade tubular yarn This last year has been full of t-shirt yarn tutorials. (Go ahead, do a google searh for ‘t-shirt yarn tutorial.’ You’ll get a gazillion results.) I purchased a few skeins of tubular yarn for a pattern, and it was pricey. So it’s fun to recycle old t-shirts…