Knitting Without Needles

If you havn’t run across Chris’s blog The Big Yellow House, you have to go see it. No alpha moms there. Just reality. In fact I would love to see good ole alpha mom swap places with Chris (or any of us with more that a couple kids and no village in site)on one of those . . . → Read More: Reality

Annie Modesitt is my hero!

ALRIGHT! No more feeling badly about my weird knitting style!! Yippee!! I was watching Annie Modesitt on Knitty Gritty and low and behold what’s that she’s doing? she knits like me! YES!

I am a COMBINATION KNITTER! HAHA! I don’t twist my stitches I don’t do it wrong! (well when I am using . . . → Read More: A Knitting Heritic

It was a dark and stormy night. But our intrepid knitter was on a mission. All her yarn needles had mysteriously vanished and she had a deadline to meet. She was on her way to Joann’s to get a much coveted Chibi and a few extra needles just in case.

She was also looking forward . . . → Read More: Knitting Noir

Perhaps I am a little jaded. After all I am worn out after changing one icky yucky poopy diaper, and then same again on the three year old who is supposed to be using the potty, and then wrestling same said three year old to sleep because he really needed a nap! My teeth need to . . . → Read More: Motherhood’s Magic Bullet?

Well I made Stephanie laugh and laugh with my admission the other day that I tried to use the drop spindle upside down. I hadn’t known I was doing it wrong till I went to the Great Lakes Fiber Show and had someone show me how to REALLY do it.

Get ready to laugh again Steph! . . . → Read More: Backwards and Upside Down

I got to watch the ribbon cutting ceremony through an online video feed for my father in law’s new toy!

Not bad eh?

Oh what is it? A supercomputer of course! It is Big Ben. The Cray XT3 named after the Steeler rookie Ben Roethlisberger (they like to name their computers after Pittsburgh team stars . . . → Read More: My Father in law’s new toy!

Well I have done it again!:mrgreen: I am quite in shock! I won Jannette’s latest contest!

So I will be getting the Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk Book#2!

WAH!

She starts another contest tommorrow!They are quite fun!

My hat off to Quaffy! She is quite a good adversary!
(I still can’t believe she did not get the last question!)

And if you havn’t . . . → Read More: A Capitol B!

Well thanks to some suggestions from some forum members at Knitter’s Review Forums I was able to complete this little rectangle knit on the bias.

It looks pretty good. I like the way that the stripes come out with the noro yarn.
Poor thing is going to be ripped out and redone though. I need to make it . . . → Read More: A little bias

Well aside from weaving in the ends here is Azia’s finished Paris Loop!!

Anyone seen . . . → Read More: An FO!

Well I went to the mailbox yesterday and there was a package!:mrgreen: It was a RAOK from Tori!

Super cool!

Now either Tori has a great sense of humour or this is a really interesting coincidence.

some nice foot soak, and yummy sounding foot lotion, and two cute stitch markers. Plus a little bottle of perfume!

Brian said ” All . . . → Read More: A Surprise in the Mailbox!