You yike it? I yike it.

My youngest asks each one of us if we “yike” dinner. We are REQUIRED to answer in the affirmative. Yes, I yike it. We all yike it.
I finally received my invitation from Ravelry.com yesterday. And I really, really yike it. I yike it so much I nearly wept for joy. Ravelry is an online knitting/crocheting [...]

My top 5 knitting essentials. Or, WHAT YOU SHOULD BUY ME IF YOU WANT TO BE MY FRIEND.

1. Knit Picks needles. All of them.
2. A new knitting bag. Specifically, this one:

I love this bag. I like it in both the rust color and the turquoise. I wouldn’t kick Namaste Needles’ other bags out of bed for eating crackers, either.
3. Needle organization. This is a tough one for me, because I don’t [...]

Top 5 knitting essentials for beginners.

1. Needles. Knit, at first, with the cheapest pair you can find. Borrow, look at garage sales, check out Michael’s/Joann’s. Try wood/bamboo, resin or aluminum. See if you like how they feel in your hands, working the yarn. If you’re a tight knitter, like I am, you might have more luck using aluminum. If [...]

Best. Needles. EVAH.

The needles from KnitPicks changed my life. Changed it so that I want to knit all the time, every day. I carry my knitting with me like a little ol’ granny. My knitting has crept into and taken over my regular life now that I use these needles.

I started with a circular, then got this [...]

I know you wanna be like me.

When I’m knitting around other people, they invariably ask one of two things:
1. What are you making?
2. How did you learn to knit?
They also blather on about how amazing I am, how creative, talented, blah blah blah…but I won’t bore you with those details. Instead, I’ll bore you with the details of how I got [...]