NEWS FLASH – SAO HAS KNIT A PAIR OF SOCKS – Million Dollar Babies!

| October 8, 2012

Some of you who follow me may recall FOUR YEARS…..(yes at least four years) of tales about my pitiful and unsuccessful attempts to knit a pair of socks.    Every New Year’s Eve I make a SUGGESTED TO DO LIST (kind of like a bucket list) for the upcoming year.  In 2009 I really got […]

On the Needles, September 28, 2012

| September 28, 2012

I am ready for Judy Laquidara’s OPAL YARN SOCK KNITTING CHALLENGE that will begin October 1….but until then I have been knitting hats. Grandangel, Leanna, found a FIREFLY HAT pattern online – the orignial Jayne hat image!  Leanna really liked it – so I ordered the Opi wool…..and here is the hat.     Now […]

On the Needles August 17, 2012

| August 17, 2012

Look below to see  what is on/or I should say OFF MY NEEDLES THIS WEEK!  (go to Judy’s blog at Patchwork Times to see what other knitters are doing this week!!!) http://www.patchworktimes.com/2012/08/17/on-the-needles-august-17-2012/ I am happy to say that I have finished my Stephen West MYSTERY SHAWL – my first  Knit-A-Long and I have Judy Laquidara […]

On the Needles August 10, 2012

| August 10, 2012

Judy Laquidara has reminded me that it is TIME to post what is on the needles (knitting, that is) this week. I am knitting on the NEVER ENDING CLUE 4 of the Rockefeller Shaw – Stephen West’s Mystery Shawl.  It is taking forever – but I am enjoying sitting in my rocking chair watching the […]

KNIT KNIT KNITTING AWAY

| August 7, 2012

The knitting needles have been click  click clicking away here lately.   I finished my third and final project for CAMP LOOPY EWE……..the Whipporwill Shawl.  I found some rubber interlocking puzzle blocks at Wal-Mart so that I could block it.  This was my first attempt at truly blocking a finished work.  I used lots of […]