Last Saturday, I revelled in the primitive-romanticism of open air natural dyeing: Dyepots simmering over an open fire. Blustery, November ...

Nova Scotian Seascape Socks Yarn: Fleece Artist Merino Sock Pattern: Elizabeth Zimmerman's sock pattern with conventional heel from Knit...

Ah, Monday mornings. Gray skies, jarring alarms, anxiety about work. Pull myself out of bed and am confronted with this!! (and this is ju...

Discouragement comes easily to me. This post isn't about the discouragement, though, so much as about the renewal of hope and patience. ...

Beautiful morning sunlight again. Seen basking in it are the Fleece Artist socks that I'd meant to finish for Socktoberfest (I wasn...

My knitpicks order arrived last week -- marvelous! Yarnwise, there's 'bare' DK merino for experimentation with natural dyes and ...

Remember that fabulous Fleece Artist yarn that I picked up as a souvenir of Nova Scotia? I've been steadily, happily working through i...

I started this sweater towards the end of an exhausting month in which I got married, moved, finished a major paper, and took my comprehensi...

Afer the debacle of the gray Mountain Man sweater, I decided to scale down to a smaller Zimmerman pattern (the sweater will be back soon - b...

It was with great excitement that I cast on for Mountain Man's eco-wool sweater this past weekend. I carefully swatched and measured an...

Substantial progress has been made on the tie-front shrug that I started last month, progress both in terms of knitting and major re-design...

I'm all abuzz with inspiration after attending a natural dyes workshop last Saturday. It was at St. Brigid's Farm in Peacham, VT, wh...

Saturday was a gorgeous autumnal day in Vermont: mist in the valley - chilly and breezy - air perfumed by fallen leaves and pine needles - o...

Theme of the week: getting back on track with things long left neglected. For knitting, this takes me to a baby sweater that I started last ...

Had myself a grafting derby last night, and I FINALLY got all the finishing done on two neat little objects. Rustic Baby Sweater Pattern: C...

Some people think 'Indian Summer' is a last, tantalizing taste of warmth and sun, making the transition to autumn even harder to bea...

cast off!! brown sweater is knitted, tossed in corner. 7 circular needle has been liberated! grab for hat!! hands a blur cast off again! v...

Back in Cambridge now. Leila (cat) seems a little blue about this turn of events. As for me, I'm a little annoyed with the painter out...

Nova Scotia. Land of exquisite harbors, tall ships, dramatic tides, glacial lakes. And Fleece Artist yarn. I would never go so far as to sa...

Pattern: Print o'the wave lace, in my own rendition. I cast on nine full repeats of the lace pattern (borrowed from Eunny's stole...