Inspiration

 

With a 40% coupon in my hands, I knew there was something out there I could find at the bookstore that would inspire me.

It didn't take long to find it. Sure enough, this qualified:

I think I have sat like that, gazing off to the side, with a slight pursing of the lips and my hand under my chin. Probably thinking about something silly.... Or wondering what the weather is like in Raleigh in January....  And I love that blue houdstooth dress....

Summer beauty

Even though it has turned cold outside, take a moment and enjoy the early blooms of summer.

Gotta get good gauge

Did you ever work on something only to have to rip it out and it looks like this when you are done? *Sigh*  It was all because of gauge. Not that I didn't like the look of the thing or stitched pattern errors. Love to hate it. Gauge matters. It is king.

I was making the back to a sweater and had the bright idea to adjust the pattern and use my knitting machine to whip out stockinette rows in a flash. The clicking of the needles along the bed thrills me. I could never knit 80 stitches in 10 seconds on the sticks. There probably are speed knitters out there who could but I am not one of them!