This weeks classes

All New Shawl Class starts on Friday! Please consider joining this Friday for my all new shawl class at Yarn Refuge! We will be starting the the lovely Milk Thistle Shawl by Nat Raedwulf owner of Wolf & Faun Knits. I instantly fell in love with Nat’s sense of aesthetics! Her designs perfectly embody the …

New classes and getting back to this blog

I have ignored these pages for too long. I will endeavoring to update my site over the next couple of months. Please stay tuned as I learn how to do this better! In the meantime please do follow me on Facebook or Instagram. Links in the sidebar. For now, I have posted my March 2019 …

New Beginnings!

After a long hiatus from my blog, I have exciting news! I am pleased to announce that as of November 1st 2016 I have become a free agent! I am now a self-employed independent instructor, provider of services, and designer! This is something I have planned to do for sometime and things have come together …

Snowflake Hat from Stitch Mountain

Exciting news!  My very first published pattern! (Be sure to read about how to win a kit today only, at the end of this post!) Let me start with a little background. Four and a half years ago I found myself at one of those pivotal points in life where decisions and complete changes in …

TGAAA KAL Square #7

I am so negligent in posting this square.  I do apologize!!!  I seem to be very good at over committing myself. Square #7 is the Barbara McIntire design on page 44.  This one will be more practice with plaits and twists.  This cable pattern is a Saxon braid which includes cable crosses and traveling stitches. …

TGAAA KAL – Increasing & Decreasing Evenly

Wow, where has the time gone! I do apologize for the delay getting this post out.  I seem to live in the land of hopelessly over committed! LOL! I’ve been spending this past week or so digging my way out from under previous commitments.  Once I get caught up I will be able to devote …

TGAAA KAL Square # 6

Time for TGAAA Square #6!  Not to worry if you’re just starting out!  Remember this is at your own pace.  As for me, I’m still only about 2 inches into square #2! If you need to catch up with the squares we’ve already announced please go to my new Past Blog Post and Video Page …

Past blogs – this and that

In August 2012 I began writing some of the blog posts for Jimmy Beans Wool.  It all started with a KAL for the A-Line Hoodie by Diane Soucy of Knitting Pure & Simple. This is a pattern published in Knit Red, the first book in the red series which kicked off the Stitch Red campaign. …

My New Blog and The Great American Aran Afghan Knit-A-Long!

Well here it is! My own very first blog post!  I had actually set this blog up a year ago but just wasn’t ready to start yet. It is a bit daunting to be starting a blog of my own.  Will I have anything to say? Will anyone even read what I write? So many …