little me

photograph taken by my grandpa Wyman circa 1966

my friend Mama Roux

Link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/MamaRoux

yes! Mama Roux has an ETSY shop! click on and consider doing some holiday shopping from the comfort of your own computer. best of all you will find something unique, lovely and will support your local gal!

Fabulous Frieda bag

tattoos are for knitters, too!

my lovely new project bags! I needed small bags to schlep around my knitting projects and commissioned my friend Nina of Mama Roux to make me some. I LOVE THEM!!

good morning!

I know it's a little early...

any knitter worth their Addi Turbos will always make a swatch to determine correct gauge at the beginning of each project. but what to do with those swatches? I came across this clever use for them in Knitting Daily (online) and had to make one!!

so easy....so cleaver. simply seam-up your swatch square, slip it over a plain glass ornament, gather up stitches on the top and bottom and there you have it. I think it is pretty cute and I have a LOT of swatches.

Cornhulio

this boy is getting huge. am having so much fun with these guys. waiting for the hens to get down to business and lay some eggs for us.

my lovely dog...

glamour shot...so handsome... so loyal....all one could want in a dog

Sea Lettuce Scarf

This pattern is fun and challenging and super-gratifying to boot. Noro Iro makes every row fun and exciting, too. Every 5th row has a picot cast-on/cast off edge, then knit in short rows to creat a sort of spiral. This would be fabulous in black...perhaps alpaca, for a totally different, but rich look.

a little paint

so much better! amazing what a couple coats of paint will do. this poor old mantle and hearth really needed a little work.