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It’s true. I’ll be teaching impressionable young minds every week, on Thursdays at Come Yarn Over here in Klamath Falls Oregon. I’ll be alternating basic small loom weaving and making sock animals. If your child happens to be conveniently located in or near Klamath Falls on a Thursday in August they will no longer have an excuse for [...]

I don’t often address yarn manufacturers on my blog, but the first sock is turning out awesome Paton’s, thanks for not crapping on me with this sock yarn, it’s actually pretty decent considering the price. I think I may change my mind about your yarns. At least this label. I’m looking forward to wearing this [...]

I took my piece from the frame in order to see how I’m doing and to allow the linen weave to relax before I start the next series of rounds inside the border. Someone asked what kind of stitch this is, the book that I have says it’s a flat stitch although another needlework dictionary [...]

… doesn’t mean I should actually attempt it. Then again, I won’t know if it’s a bad idea until I try. On the other hand, many of my bad ideas started as good ideas that eventually went horribly wrong because I seem to have little (if any) awareness of my actual limitations. So far, things [...]

I still think self striping sock yarns are pretty nifty. You know what would be really cool though? Self ribbing sock yarns. Think about it yarn manufacturers, some one could corner the market on that one. If my yarn ribbed itself I would be on cloud nine. I am pretty happy with the easter egg [...]

Extra geek points all around for anyone that knows what movie I’m referencing in the title. A perfect geek score of 10 will get you the love and admiration of my imaginary friends. (Those of you that know that 10 in binary equals the number two now have a perfect geek score. The adoring crowds are now [...]

The locals tell me that it can snow all the way into June. June. (Sob.) Snow. (Sniffle.) Get this– next month, on the 3rd, a yarn shop is going to open up here in town. I’m so excited. The only way I could possibly be more excited about a yarn shop opening would be if [...]

My dear friend Lisa Castano hand-dyed some gorgeous merino roving for me last year, I got this lovely single from it. Lisa is in Gresham Oregon and she does a fantastic job of handpainting rovings in small batches as well as handblending different mixes of fibery goodness. Eager to get some knittable goodness and to [...]

No one is going to get that bastardized reference are they? Moving right along then. In keeping with my current thing of making creatures out of garments– sock frogs! Frogs made of socks. One of these days I’m actually going to get around to making a classic sock monkey. My soft sculpting techniques need some [...]

This little guy started life as a pair of knit gloves. Usually I find stretch gloves perfectly useless as gloves but I haven’t made a softie in a long time and the idea of a maneki neko was way too tempting to resist. The paw holding the fish is the thumb of the glove, and [...]