Some time ago, I made this shawl as a project for a Craftsy class. I love the shawl, but it’s really too small to be useful to me. Sad, isn’t it? Anyway, I had some of the yarn left and decided to make it again in a larger size. I […]
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Some time ago, I made a beaded shawl called Accola as part of a Craftsy class. It was really pretty, but I made the small size and realized that it would be much more useful for my purposes if I’d made it larger. Tearing the original one apart was going […]
My hands — and feet, too — get awfully cold, even in the comparatively mild climate where we live. Sometimes they get so cold that the shade of white they turn makes them look dead. Ugh! I’ve worn gloves for years, of course, but sometimes gloves get in the way […]
In Houston last month, I ran across a stand selling silk yarn called Silky Mulberry. Oh, yum! It’s so soft and luscious to touch that I simply couldn’t leave the stand without a skein of that yarn. The hardest part was deciding which color to buy. I finally ended up […]
I’ve been working on a Craftsy class on doing beaded knitting for some time now. I’d already made one shawl from the class, and today I finished blocking the second/last one. This one is actually from a pattern I used in my very first Craftsy class, but the beads were […]
I’ve mentioned before that I’m taking another class at Craftsy, this one called Knitting with Beads, taught by Laura Nelkin. Today I finished the first of two shawls for this class, and I’m now waiting for it to dry after having blocked it. 🙂 I love the color of the […]