I Made a Sock!
My friend Teresa walked me through grafting the toe with Kitchener stitch, and my first sock was done! I haven’t started the second yet, because I’m working on a couple of projects that have a […]
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Knitting Socks
A couple weeks ago, there was a countrywide Etsy Made in Canada craft-show event, and the one in Vancouver was held in the centre of downtown. The weather was gorgeous, so the kid and I […]
Knitter Anna Hrachovec Is a Genius
The older I get, the more I value my relationship with my high-school best friend. As might have been predicted back in our days of shoving notes through each other’s locker vents, I ended up moving as far […]
Werkers on the Road: Dispatch the Third
I’ve tried to write this post for days and days, and bandwidth just didn’t cooperate. Here’s hoping I can get some photos uploaded! We’re at the start of the final leg of our trip: a […]
Compulsory Podcast Episode 7: Rachael Herron
Rachael Herron is the bestselling author of the new novel Splinters of Light, the five-book Cypress Hollow romance series, and the memoir A Life in Stitches. As we discuss in the podcast, I’ve read Rachael’s blog for […]
The Gay Sweater
It’s been a long time since an act of craftivism has thoroughly gripped me. Check out The Gay Sweater, made from the donated hair of over a hundred gay people. As the group that made it […]
#yearofmaking #2: Week 4
Forgive my tardiness in recapping the fourth week of my 2015 year of making. Last week’s newsletter was about the treading of water I do when I’m waiting to hear about a major project (and […]
#yearofmaking #2: Week 3
Over the course of the third week of my second year of making, my days ranged from one extreme on the make-o-metre to the other. On one day I spent a couple of hours making soap; on […]
Casting on to Knit a Sleepbot 3000
Back when I was finishing up the capybara I made for my friend’s daughter, Owen got hold of the book the pattern was in – Huge and Huggable Mochimochi, by Anna Hrachovec. When he saw the […]
Staying Obsessed: A Year of Making Update
Today, for the 52nd day in a row, I took a photo of something I was in the process of making and I posted it on Instagram and all the other usual places. (Today it […]
