My facial expression looks like I sucked up several thousand pixie sticks. In fact, I just worked out the pixi elf hat.

As I mentioned earlier, I am in desperate desire to own an elfin’ pixi hat, made by yours truly and complete with a baby pom affixed atop. While I hadn’t even really conceived of the design much in my last post, after working on it a bit more and making some much needed tweaks, I [...]

A woman of many…elfish fisherman…caps? If it doesn’t work out, at least I’ll have something to stuff dead fish in for eatage?

Today, I’ve decided to take to getting a good chunk of Charlotte Bronte’s novel “Shirley” (another gift from Mum for Christmas) completed, peruse the latest issue of Knit.1 (which has loads of patterns I want to try–including an homage to trends and bloggers in the knitting world, featuring the deliciousness of chunky knitwear….told you!), and [...]

Woody Allen says if you travel faster than the speed of light, you’d lose your hat. What happened here, then?

Delish! I am so quick to get things on and off the needles these days. What is wrong with me? Oh, it may be the insane cold-snap whirling its way through Boston at the moment. Last night downtown along Canal Street, not a soul was out…Sully’s Tap was basically empty, and The Fours was quiet [...]

“…whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off–then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”

Last night, I decided to cast-on a really quick earflap cabled hat with tails, because, why not? Clearly, I have knitting A.D.D. though in my defense, the baby sweater I’m working on is so close to being done, I feel I am at liberty to flex my knitting muslce in adult-wares.
That being said, I found [...]