Fiddle Knits!

It's time to send in your nominations for the 2013 About.com Readers' Choice Awards! You can select 3 names/brands for each category. Categories are: Favorite Knitwear Designer, Favorite Yarn Company (large or indie), Favorite Knitting Blog, Favorite Book of 2012, and Favorite Knitting Needle Brand.



If you've enjoyed knitting my designs in 2012 you can let the world know by…

So who's excited for the hobbit movie that's coming out in just a few weeks? Me! The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have been among my favorite stories since my mom first read me LoTR when I was probably about 8 years old. When I was 9 I read The Hobbit to myself for the first time. Since those days I've read both books and listened to the audiobooks numerous times, I can't even remember how many. It has been a few years (maybe 3) since the last time I listened to either on audio book…

Erica inspected my shawl and said I might actually be on the home stretch! She added that since I'm so slow it will probably take me another week or two, but I'm so excited. I've begun thinking about learning to bind off, adding a border, and blocking. Then, of course, what to wear the shawl with. Funny thoughts for me. I began this shawl on Clover bamboo straight…

Stops two and three of the Mythos blog tour where just a day apart.

First, there was an appearance on the Math4Knitters blog. Lara wrote a wonderful review giving her opinion on the designs in the collection. One thing she mentioned was my use of skp instead of ssk and noted that she preferred the ssk decrease. I…