I just love receiving email from knitters who have completed one of my sweaters – especially when they send photos!  Martha has outdone herself by knitting not one, but TWO Drunken Argyle vests.  The original pattern was published in the
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Pearls, that is.  I’ve been looking everywhere for a Canadian source for Pony Pearl dpns.  I found them at the Beehive Wool Shop in Victoria when I participated in the yarn crawl at the Victoria Fibre Festival.  So, I decided
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A few posts back I talked about replacing an intarsia block of colour without ripping everything back.  The Lucy cardigan needed another fix.  The turquoise in the first six rows creating the hem also had to be replaced.  I took the time
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Sunday at the Victoria Knit-Out prooved to be a challenging day weatherwise.  When we arrived to set up the tent there were grey skies and the rain was holding. Devan helped unpack his bear modeling the Bobo sweater design. After the
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Yes, that’s who you think she is! Stephanie Pearl-McPhee a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot was standing directly in front of me while waiting for her introduction at her talk Saturday evening in Victoria.  (Sorry for the grainy cell phone photo – must remember
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Mechelle Lymburner, a photographer friend and the mother of one of Devan’s classmates offered to photograph some of my sweaters to use in posters for my tent at the Knit-Out. We threw the sweaters on some kids in the playground after
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I want to share a nifty trick with you.  I’ve discovered how to replace a block of intarsia knitting without ripping everything out.  After knitting most of the back of the Lucy design I decided I didn’t like my colour
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