Knitting in twilight? Yes, sir.

That’s me, working on yet another one of those Twilight-inspired Bella Swan mittens, which are just the most scrumptous design ever it should be a travesty they landed in that pathetic excuse for a movie.
I honestly can’t decide whether to actually keep this pair for myself or gift them out. I think I might gift [...]

Elves are cool, man? Welp, yes. If you believe Orlando Bloom or my brilliant new hat.

Success, again! I didn’t really feel this one coming on last night in the early stages of my decreasing and shaping of what I hoped would be an elfin’ pixi hat.
But can I just please wax poetic on how successful this hat design was? I think I’m so pleased with the results I will create [...]

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 [...]

“On the Seventh Day, God created bacon.”

By now, most of you should already know my serious love for the pig–and my constant fight to stay away from the pork product as a result of this love (though bacon is religion, as my cohort Laura Cutter declared last Friday night while we gorged on tapas, “On the seventh day, God created bacon!”).
My [...]