Knitting in my Backyarn

Shovelling snow once again.  Talking to myself as usual.  I turn around to see my mailman standing right behind me.  Now that I wasn...

This week I finished a pair of super cute mittens, if I do say so myself! A friend asked me to make mittens for her 5 year old son, a frien...

The Party: We had a family party to go to and my friend is one of those people who prefers that people remove their shoes when inside the ho...

Picture courtesy of 6 year old kidster #1. Enough said. Details here .

I've been plugging away on my latest project , the Easy Top Down Raglan that I am knitting as part of a KAL in the Spud & Chloe Rave...

Well who doesn't? My last few projects have been nice, quick knits! But not just mindless either, I learned a new technique. Bobbles. Th...

The pattern for the cat I test knit is now available! Ravelry The Pattern Box

Here is my spring hoodie . It is an Ugh. The pattern has a few errors. The hood does not make a hood, it makes a flap. You know, like a big ...

This little guy is the latest off my needles. I needed something small and portable to take with me on my trip to Ohio. It had just so happe...

I was perusing the projects I've completed this year and it seems I am on a bit of a selfish knitting jag. So far this year I've mad...

In my last post I showed you my first sweater , the one I made 17 years ago. Besides the 13 year hiatus from knitting in general, it has bee...

I don't really like to use that term, Yarn Snob, because it just sounds bad. I'm not trying to alienate anyone either. But if you de...

Have you ever started a project and got about halfway through when you thought to yourself "this would look so much better as .......

I've done it again. I now have four projects going at once. The first project was Auntie Mitts in the Atacama I had used for the scarf. ...

Remember my scarf I just finished? And remember that thing I have about wanting matchy things? Anyway...I am on a search for a hat pattern. ...

Scarves, that is. I knew one of my Christmas gifts was a new coat from my mother (since I had picked it out, tried it on, and brought it bac...

I've had two "big ticket" items in my immediate mental queue for a while now. The first (you might remember from this post ) i...

Thanks friends! Thanks to your support, the Braided Cable Handle Tote is the November bag KAL in the Bag-A-Month Club on Ravelry! I'm...

Hi fiber friends! I have some exciting news. This week my Braided Cable Handle Tote pattern was put into the running for the November KAL ...

What do superheroes and lace have in common? Apparently a lot, since I've already been commissioned to make a small one in white and a h...