I have a problem resisting fingering weight yarn. Treated myself to some (more) Sweetgeorgia CashLuxe Fine in Pistachio and Cayenne. Then noticed that my Cash Luxe Fine, even the pink tag, perfectly matches the pillow I made (years ago) with fabric from Tonic Living. Can't remember the fabric's designer, I'm guessing Micheal Miller. 

You can see a clearer picture of CashLuxe in Mist here. It was on the needles, but I realized I didn't have enough for the project I was attempting. Ha, there's another point for Knitting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them : don't pretend you have enough yarn when you know you don't. It will only end in heartbreak.

Little C is moving on from finger knitting to actual knitting. And it's going quite well. His goal? Ear warmers for his stuffie, Sylvester the cat. Will add photos as we go.

Teaching Kids to Knit

It's been almost six months since I finished building the color chartmaker. It was an exhausting process and when it was done with me, I swore I was done with it. But now, I feel myself drawn to revising it, improving it and (worse still) building it's companion, a stitch chartmaker. Am I utterly mad?

It's great to see all that secret knitting come to fruition! 

Check out Quince & Co's new pattern collection, Scarves etc. Some gorgeous, gorgeous scarves and cowls in there. And I'm so pleased to have my Hamilton Scarf included. 

Hamilton Duck's Springtime Story is out of print now, but of course, with the internet being what it is, you can probably find a copy of it. Hamilton Duck falls asleep under a fruit tree, wakes up covered in snow. He freaks out a little bit, then realizes that the snow is actually petals from the fruit tree, and that it is spring.

Here are a couple of instagram snapshots of something I'm working on. I get to work with Rowan Yarns Savannah, a cotton/silk tape yarn. It has a lovely finished texture, quite pebbly. It makes you want to stand around like a fabulous windswept model on a rocky English beach. (Unlike Rowan's wool blends, which make you want to stand in misty heather).

I've set myself the goal of knitting it in a few days. No problem, no problem. That will be, could be, just fine, as long as I don't make mistakes. But I'm prone to mistakes. Terrible ones. We'll see how it goes. In honour of common mistakes, I've added an article: Knitting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them . I hope that I can follow my own advice.

Oh and that's a crocheted provisional cast on, my favourite kind of provisional cast on. The only one I can remember how to do when I'm in front of the tv and too lazy to google provisonal cast on.