Knitting on the Rogue River

If you’re reading this and plan on attending Black Sheep Gathering this year then you might want to play Black Sheep Bingo. All of the details can be found on violinjodie’s blog. If you’re in Ravelry join the Black Sheep Gathering group for more details on who’s going, what classes everyone is taking, whether they’re [...]

Thank you to all for your comments about my brother. There are no guarantees in this life and I only wished he had lived his life differently. Enough said on that. Here we are on New Year’s Eve. It was the perfect evening for us, we were home by 10:30. In my long absense from [...]

Black Sheep Gathering was great again this year and the weather cooperated by not being too hot. Got to stay with the hubby all weekend so that saved money, money I could spend on a loom. Yep, I bought a used loom. It has Rasmussen Loom Company stamped on it (long out of business?) but [...]

I can’t help myself. Since I bought the Clover pom pom makers, yep had to have both, I’ve been busy making pom poms. Don’t know what I’ll do with them but they’re fun to look at. Of knitting interest I’ve been making little progress on de Colores and the hubby’s sweater, but have started two [...]

[youtube Z1_EKKDb1t4 nolink] Last month I was one of the demonstrators at a local antique show. While I was there a young man from one the local news stations came to film something to air that night. Of all people he picked me to film. Yuk. My husband captured it and I have the video [...]

This is the end of the Spin to Knit Swap. It would be fun to see what everyone received from the swap and to see what was done with the yarn we all received. Here’s what my secret pal sent for round one, 91 yards of two ply linen. It’s enough to do a washcloth [...]

Here are a couple of samples I knit with the black corriedale and some BFL from another project. Now I want to knit something using these two yarns and this technique at a smaller weight than I have spun up. *Massive sigh* But no, I must use self control and finish the sweater for hubby [...]

I think I’ve finally spun enough of the BFL for this project. There’s still ~200 grams of dyed roving to spin but I’m hoping to spin that for another project. This is the first time I’ve measured and weighed everything before dyeing and spinning. All of the skeins of BFL weigh between 100-105 grams. The [...]

If you’re in need of a last minute gift for a friend or relative with long hair then I highly recommend Calorimetry from knitty.com with a couple of alterations. The first one I knit was huge, 120 stitches is just too many stitches for worsted weight yarn. Frogged this one. Before giving up or re-engineering [...]

…ready to be gifted. Finished these Monday night. These are a quick knit and a great way to use small skeins of handspun. Sorry I don’t know how many yards but it was less than 150, more than 100. Size 5.0 (US) needles. Edit: Sorry for the skimpy details, and thank you Tamara for pointing [...]