Brooklyn Mitts

Brooklyn Mitts

I had seen the Brooklyn Mitts pattern on Ravelry and added it to my queue, but didn’t ever do anything with it.  Then one day I was browsing Craftsy and…

Lace Wars: Episode I

Love the title of this post?  I was being cute because the name of this shawl I’m working on is Skywalker.  See what I did there?  I’m knitting this shawl…

RIP Blue Angel Shawl

Back in the summer of 2013 I was super excited to sign up for a mystery knit-a-long with Craftsy.  Well, the danger of mystery KALs is that you may not…

Frosting Hat

I work at an awesome education-based nonprofit called BUILD and for some reason the people at our National Program Team have a real thing for rubber duckies.  As such, we…

Mommy Daughter Head Huggers

I’ve been trying to cull my stash lately and one of the yarns I always encounter when I sort it is my Brown Sheep Lambs Pride Bulky leftovers from my…

Toleware Hat

Yes, I already have a million hats, but when I saw this simple hat with the cute embroidery on Ravelry, I knew I had to make one more!  But, to…

Evergreen Lake Mittens

Last year I was interested in learning more about fair isle knitting, so I signed up for the Craftsy class Stranded Colorwork: Basics and Beyond.*  I have sort of lukewarm…

UFO sighting! Tropical Clutch

I was rummaging through one of my (secret) yarn storage spaces this morning looking for a particular yarn I need to finish a project and look what I found: This…

Sugar Maple Shawl

I wanted to make something special for my Grandma for her 100th birthday and I thought a shawl would be lovely, but I sort of waited until the last minute…

Koolhaas II

Stashbusting alert!  I had a spare skein of Silk ‘n Wool left over from my Back to School Vest.  I used to see this yarn every time I went through…