Have you ever heard of or seen a Tempestry? I had not – until this year. In April, an article about the Tempestry Project appeared in one of my Facebook knitting groups. I clicked on the link and was immediately hooked. When I saw the National Park Tempestry Project getting underway, I had to join. …
From Knit Bits
Felted Slippers and Prayer Shawls
I have been knitting up a storm in Pennsylvania. Working at the desk allows me to knit easy things when we aren’t busy. I work on things that require my attention to a pattern here at home in the evenings. I am still working hard on an evening project that I can’t tell you about …
Knitting Projects for 2019, So Far
I shared with you back in January about the sweater I knit for my dad and other knitting projects done in the last half of 2018. As I mentioned last week, I also have a lot of spun yarn to use. I have not been idle in the knitting department in 2019. So far I …
Spun Yarn: So Much Yarn, So Little Time
When we first started living in the RV, five years ago, I had one cupboard for my yarn stash. Granted, it was stuffed full of yarn, but it was just one cupboard. Not so bad. That was before I started spinning my own yarn. Now the spun yarn is spinning out of control. I started …
Second Friendliest Yarn Store in the Universe
It took us two days to drive over the slow roads from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Junction City, Kansas, to get our brakes replaced. As I wrote yesterday, we took time to smell the sorghum and also read every billboard. About an hour away from Junction City we saw this sign: “Second Friendliest Yarn …
Navajo-Churro Sheep and Navajo Weaving
As I mentioned yesterday, today I am going to write about Navajo-Churro Sheep and the Navajo Weaving produced from their wool. I got interested in Navajo Weaving while I was at Pipe Spring. Lots of visitors would tell me they had watched someone weaving on a Navajo Loom. At Pipe Spring I used a floor …
Weaving Southwest in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Today I return to the southwest and some of our travels out there. We saw lots of things while traveling back to Ohio in October. Weaving Southwest is one of the places I want to be sure to mention before being done with New Mexico. I first heard of Weaving Southwest when I was learning …
Scarf, Shawl, and Socks: Other Knitted Projects
Yesterday I wrote about the sweater I knitted for my dad for Christmas. Today I am highlighting some other projects that I knitted during the time I was working on the sweater. I made a scarf, a shawl, and socks. It seems I only knit things that start with “s”. First, here are a pair …
Sweater for My Father, Knitted with Yarn I Spun
I haven’t posted about any knitted projects for a while because I was working on a big project and didn’t want to give anything away. But now that the sweater is out of the gift box, I can reveal it and the other things I knitted in the meantime. Today’s post is about the big …
Forgiving Ourselves as We Forgive Others
I have been working on a special knitting project and it is coming along nicely. I am very pleased with my progress on it and how it looks. Unfortunately, I noticed this morning that I missed a crossover in the intricate cable pattern about 10 rows back. Now the question of the day is: do …