Last week Akari arrived to Wool & Grace. This is a brand-new yarn from Noro. It comes in ginormously round skeins - 526 yards or so - of beautiful and soft, worsted-weight yarn. It is a blend of cotton, silk and mohair - plus a few other materials that make it easy to work with.… Continue reading Behold the Blarf
During a recent polar freeze, an intrepid Wool & Grace knitter came in for help. One of my former Thursday students, I recalled that she’d made herself a Her Sweater from Loopy Mango the previous winter, and I told her that I was feeling jealous and wanting one of my own. She nodded in agreement… Continue reading Get Loopy
It's no secret that all of us at Wool & Grace love love LOVE Katia's Cotton Merino yarn. It's a heavenly soft blend of cotton (giving it a sturdy core) and merino wool (which is ultra soft and wraps around the yarns cotton core like a halo of wooly loveliness). We've made a Better Than… Continue reading Two New Things to Make with Katia’s Cotton Merino
Last week I talked about selfish knitting, something I fully endorse. This week the universe is telling me to think about knitting selflessly. First there was my daughter’s teacher who asked another knitter in a big group conversation to make she and her daughter a hat (matching… adorable). When the other knitter explained… Continue reading Knit Selflessly
The holidays are behind us. New Years resolutions are set. It’s time to take care of ourselves. It’s time for some selfish knitting. This whole idea of self knitting is one that I’m very comfortable with. As a knitter I always have been. If you read this blog regularly, you know that I really… Continue reading Start Some Selfish Knitting
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