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What I’m Working On My husband and I just returned from taking our younger son to college which is the same college his older brother is attending. Before we left on the trip, I was thinking that I would have time this fall to make blankets for each of my boys for their dorm beds.…

So, I’m knitting on this Shibui cowl, so excited to be using this super soft yarn, and suddenly, I notice that my M1s are making holes. And I do not want holes in this pattern. I simply want increases. After some examination, I realize that I need to unknit a few rounds (of 260 stitches!)…

I’m knitting with a super soft yarn combination and I’m so excited about it. One strand of Shibui Staccato and one strand of Silk Cloud in Ivory held together are making up the most beautiful and fun-to-make cowl. Recently, I became part of the Shibui Spark program and I’m lucky enough to be knitting this…

Oh me! Oh knitting! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless faces of the failed, Of sweaters fill’d with errors, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more error prone than I, and who more knitterly?) Of needles that vainly crave the stitches, of the sweaters mean, of the struggle ever renew’d, Of…

Two yarns I pulled from upon shelf And sorry I could not purchase both And be one knitter, long I stood And thought about what I might make With the skein I held in left Then took the other, just as fair, And having perhaps a better claim Because it was bright and wanted wear;…