Category: Bookish Thursday
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Bookish Thursday: Noro! Noro! Noro!
If you are a Noro-phile then today’s book review is definitely for you! One of Potter Craft’s latest is all Noro all the time, and it’s very nice! Knitting Noro: The Magic of Knitting with Hand-Dyed Yarns By Jane Ellison, explores the many wonders of one of the knitter’s favorite yarns Noro. There is nothing…
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Move over Knitting Ninja!
WAY back I showed you an online comic that featured me as the Knitting Ninja.. wielding knitting needles rather than nunchucks off I went into adventure.. Well now there is a new.. REAL.. comic in town: Coming soon to a knitting shop near you is Handknit Heroes. I was a lucky duck and got an…
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HEY! Who Forgot to Tell me!!??
That this: Knit Two By Kate Jacobs Was out! Azia spotted it at the bookstore today! Good girl.. Didn’t get it.. but I will! Unfortunately it hasn’t hit the iTunes store yet! I have this now: Casting Spells By Barbara Bretton To keep me busy till then! Since my Mother got it for me…
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Bookish Thursday: Shibori Knits
We all know what felting is.. taking an item made from wool, or another pure animal hair fiber (most of them felt) and throwing it in the washer and shrinking it up.. ON PURPOSE.. this sometimes of course happens by accident when the unobservant throws a wool sweater in the wash and shrinks it down…