What COLOR should I use?

Have you ever seen something, anything that you have seen many times before, but this one time, it made your mouth drop open? Then you stop to think what it was that stopped you dead in your tracks, because that car, hat, shoe, sofa isn’t new, but in THAT color? You say to yourself, you […]

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Mixed Tape: the trunk show

According to Google  a trunk show is an event in which vendors present merchandise directly to store personnel or customers at a retail location or another venue such as a hotel room, in this case it was a yarn store. Do Ewe Knit? in Westfield NJ to be exact. The venue was set to inspire us with designs from Stephen West and StevenBe.

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Yarn…

It’s never far from me. It’s a cold Saturday and I am in super duper lazy mode. I woke up, grabbed my touring cape and my MacBook and got back in the bed 😜 my daughter ordered breakfast for us and the chill factor is almost illegal. I am doing my normal browsing through my

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Flashback Friday

I had all intentions of doing a TBT (throwback Thursday) but Thursday threw me around like long lost Ragedy Ann doll. So Flashback Friday it is,okay? I joined a photo a day challenge on Instagram. Wait you don’t know what that is? Well there is a calendar where each day you are told what to

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Getting to the HEART of the matter

I love hearts, so when I was asked about knitting a heart, the first thing I did was go searching for a pattern. I love the Internet, because you can find anything and everything. In my travels I came across this blog julieandtheknits and a post from 11/22/13. The pattern can be found here. The

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Let it snow

and I will keep knitting on my Touring Cape. It’s coming along nicely. I think what I like the most is this cape looks good on both sides. This project was the perfect companion during the Super Bowl…I didn’t have any skin in the game so I could knit my way through it all.  No screaming

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Throw or Pick, how do you knit?

This morning, because my internal clock is Satan’s first born, I woke up at 5:15am. Who does that on a Saturday? That would be me, AND to make matters worst I couldn’t fall back to sleep. GRRRRR So I grab my phone and find my self in one of the knitting communities and the poster

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What's GG knitting now?

Last night Scandal came back and I needed something to occupy my hands. Why? So I wouldn’t throw something at my TV! Shonda play too much, yes I am addicted to Scandal. I shared this pic with you guys of the cape I tried on at Vogueknitting live and fell in love, the Touring Cape,

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Thankful Thursday|Today I am thankful

Today I woke up and the first thing I laid my eye on was a skein of yarn that right now, I couldn’t afford to purchase, so today I am thankful. I got up and instead of focusing on the “have nots” I turned my eye on what I “have”, which is abundant. Today, I

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This week on Ravelry

It’s time for the Ravelry Roundup! This is where I share what as caught my eye, made me say “oh I have to make that like right now” or in this case made me grab yarn and needles and cast on baby! I will start with the pattern that made me go stash diving, praying

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