I am currently working on a new design for publication, and I'm excited to share it soon. In the meantime, though, I am racing around trying to get ready for the start of the academic year (I work full time while also teaching Italian literature courses), so I am not quite ready for a large blog …
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Nettles and Wool
Anyone who has spent time wandering around sheep and cow pastures in the UK is familiar with this little plant - perhaps painfully so: The stinging nettle grows abundantly in the UK, and if you've ever brushed up against one with your bare ankle, you won't forget it any time soon. They don't …
Travel Project
When packing for my trip to the UK, I couldn't exactly travel without a knitting project. However, the designs I'm working on at the moment are not exactly travel friendly - multiple colors dangling in every direction are not a good thing to risk outside of your own comfy chair! So I decided to poke …
Woolfest 2019
This past week my family and I returned from our trip abroad to visit my brother in the UK. It was a wonderful trip, with unbelievably nice weather, lots of sights to behold, and most of all a chance to spend time as a family. I will be regaling you with photos from the trip for quite some time to …
So. Much. Yarn.
Ok, so yesterday was the big opening day of the Webs yearly tent sale. I had never been to this sale - which is a shameful admission, I realize! But 2019 would be the year to finally bite the bullet and do it. My friend Tom, ever the enabler of all things fiber related AND of my brief forays into …