I have started the body for my jacket. I’m knitting a sort of waist band now. I will need to block it before continuing, just now it is curling terribly around it self. It doesn’t matter if it shrinks a little. I am picking up more stitches than normal around the edge of it to get a little bit of wave anyway. But I am wondering if maybe should have [...]

Knitting in dream presents unexpected combination

While snoozing for as absolutely long as possible this morning, I had a dream. When I finally got out of bed I was fascinated and certain that I had to knit the object that spawned it.
The dream was mainly about Kendo, witch is a Japanese martial art where you have armour,  and fence with bamboo swords. The armour covers you up so that it is quit [...]

Anna of Knit-Write have knit a lovely pair of these Squirrel and Oak Mittens. Here pair really sold me, so the mittens go on my want to knit list! Simple as that ;)
Then to something that has nothing to do with knitting, but I feel it must be said. I don’t like the yellow animated [...]

YarnStandards is a USA based initiative to make guidelines for yarn manufacturers, publishers and designers of patterns to follow when making products for knitting and crochet. It is a good idea actually, it is just that its going to take a very long time to agree on a world standard.
People usually want there own way [...]

I lied last night, what I called a sweater is actually going to be a jacket. I am almost finished white the first arm, just the shoulder cap left. Then it is just the rest to go. It is already chilling in the morning, so I feel a real urge at the moment to [...]

I am temporarily separated from my stash for maybe as long as six months. I’m two weeks in to that separation and I have already started building a rebound stash. I, off course, have the yarn for the sweater I am knitting. But today I had to buy some fingering yarn, thinking I could knit [...]