Taking Shears to the Bottom When we visited our son and daughter-in-law at Christmas 2019, I offered to make them sweaters for Christmas 2020. After a bit of back and forth, we decided on a matching cable pattern, but not matching colors. I began working on Chloe’s sweater in April when I realized that we …
Category Archives: Knitted Gifts
Reversible Brioche Wrap
And Other Brioche Objects I have another class coming up at the community college – Brioche Knitting. The next post will be the password protected materials for that class. In the meantime, here is a brief introduction to brioche knitting. Brioche knitting is a slipped-stitch technique that results in a stretchy knitted fabric where the …
A Gift For You…
I sometimes get frustrated when I knit gifts for people, and I don’t think this frustration is unusual. I want the gift receiver to love and cherish their gift, but I also want to be acknowledged for the gift. Because I created this object, the object itself now has significance to me; in fact it …
Yarn and Chocolate 