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My Craft/Knitting Space Reorganization Developments! The pictures indicate that I actually set up my major knitting machines since my last blog, carbed out a sewing space and, a desk area for my day job, investigations (in the closet)! All you crafters share your organize and space challenges with me, maybe we can all help each other, hm? Continue reading

My friend Joan is getting a purebred Maltese puppy and she's going to want a doggie coat and a carrying bag for it. So, knitter that I am, will knit a matching coat and bag for the doggie. I am thinking of using a blend of Qiviut -Merino; I fell in love with the Qiviut fiber! Here's a bit of info about it: Qiviut (pronounced kiv-ee-ut) is the Inuit word for the extremely fine underwool of the muskox, prized for its softness and warmth. Each year, muskoxen grow a dense layer of qiviut over their entire body, protected from wind... Continue reading

I am finally getting a handle on my craft room. I have also engaged one of my two daughters to model some of my knitted creations; In the meantime. While the matching cap and fingerless gauntlets are handknitted items, I am also setting up my knitting machines for faster knitting of felted crafts such as bags, clothes, felted yardage fror upholstery, homedecs, etc... Continue reading

I am finally getting a handle on my craft room. I have also engaged one of my two daughters to model some of my knitted creations; In the meantime. While the matching cap and fingerless gauntlets are handknitted items, I am also setting up my knitting machines for faster knitting of felted crafts such as bags, clothes, felted yardage fror upholstery, homedecs, etc... Continue reading

Day three of having a blog, still no real thoughts on what I should do with it, but I'm going along and see what happens. This is a rainy friday fall day typical of the Northwest and I am planning to put together some Ikea shelves for my "knit and yarn shop" in our guestroom. It's still a bloody mess and I'm slowly transforming it into something I'm comfortable in to do all the prokects I carry around in my head......such as knitting for profit and getting on etsy.com with my creations. Have been knitting since I was six and... Continue reading

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.....How to do a blog, just started and feel stumped. Hello out there in Blog Land ! I will stop now and continue working on setting up this site tomorrow. I am planning to use this blog to talk about some of my main interests in the fiber and textile crafts; Other of my passions include cooking good food (from scratch) and baking good pastries, especially pies and tarts. So if anyone's interested, please blog on and let's get a conversation going ! Continue reading