No picture today, but I do have two feet. The first sock now has a partial mate. It's not time to count rows for the heel yet, but it's almost time to be concerned that I don't knit too long a foot before I turn the heel. My plan is to count the rows --… more »

You've seen this picture before. Let me tell you a little more about it. All four embellishments are constructed from the same pattern with essentially the same number of stitches. The pattern is simple -- chain four and join to a ring. Work twelv… more »

Today's post is more conversation with an experienced fiber artist who is new to alpaca. The original dialog started in this post and continues today. ...I of course, couldn't wait, and unrolled the fleece on the deck and definitely it is fleece that… more »

As many times as I have covered alpaca fiber prep and spinning, I continue to get new questions -- good questions, new questions, interesting variants of old questions. I thought I had it all answered -- or maybe I thought I had all the answers. As I con… more »

There are finished objects, and then there are finished objects. I've been making a lot of these ... ... because I've been watching the Tour de France and these are much less subject to gage and tension variations than sock knitting. You will remem… more »

I work in one of those big box stores -- in the garden area. I won't call my employer dangerous -- certainly it's not a dangerous place to shop. However, there are many, many ways to get seriously injured in our store if you're not using your head. We're… more »

Look very carefully, at the top of this sock. Notice the lack of needles. This sock is finished. Finished! I even managed to maintain a loose bind-off on the first try. I'm excited. One sock is done. I actually finished my largest and most complic… more »

There was a time in my younger life when bicycling was pretty much everything to me. I lived on my bicycle. I rode to work every day rain or shine -- and in Seattle winters, it's mostly rain. When I wasn't working, I was cycling for fun, including some r… more »

Yup. Want to write. Can't think of what to write. Not enough knitting progress to mention. No spinning. No new birds to talk about. Nothing really new in the garden. And, no pictures I feel like putting up at the moment. Nothing. I suppose I could… more »

Wow! Life got busy. There was a holiday and a family involved. There has been no spinning progress and almost no sock progress -- I'm just now writing about last weekend. We spent last Sunday visiting our babies -- our alpaca babies -- in Tennessee. W… more »