I finished my newest book..... "Beautiful Wanderings" I will be teaching this book, come April 7, 8 & 9th in, Albuquerue, New Mexico. The class will be held in Annie Hooten's studio. hootenannie4@aol.com If you would like more information on signing...

Still enjoying playing with watercolors. The lure above is a vintage one that is a special one for my husband. There are more to come. The first hook is red and the back hook is the usual silvery hook. Not sure why, it's a fisherman's secret I guess. ha! Mr. Owl is mostly watercolor on ...

There is nothing as much fun as realizing, the morning of Christmas Eve Day as you're getting up to cook dinner for 15 of your most cherished family members and friends, that you are sick. The denial of the past few days hasn't worked and you have that I-Really-Shouldn't-Be-Out-Of-Bed sick feel...

**if you are looking for the post about the Elliebelly Knit-Along and yarn giveaway, click here.** I'm back to knitting Monkey. And Monkey now has a back. I'm completely enamored with this knit and am starting to envision an entire zoo, full of knitted animals. Fortunately, I'm not the on...

Look at Monkey's cute (although sort of creepy since it's disembodied) head. I decided to stuff it, even though the pattern doesn't direct me to at this point, because it seemed like it would be easier now, without having to navigate up the body through the tight neck. There are a lot of co...

It's my first finished object for this year's Malabrigo March Knitalong. Or does it count as two? Tardis Blue mittens, knit from Malabrigo's Bulky weight Rasta yarn. This is a great last minute gift project, as they knit up in just a few hours at this weight. The yarn is so soft! This is...

I like estate sales. I find cool things there sometimes. I went to one in my neighborhood yesterday and came away with some interesting things. Even vintage art supplies (I found boxes of vine charcoal at one sale at another time) Once in a while I find art work that I like enough to brin...

Last year, I knit a series of wonderful hats for our family trip to Iceland. I finished one of them, Fuego, mid-trip, during a hike to see some wonderful waterfalls and rainbows. But, I didn't have a pom-pom maker with me, or any knowledge about how to make one, not being a pom-pom kind of gi...

It started innocuously enough, with a couple of pretty skeins that I purchased during a trip to a favorite local yarn store in Tuscaloosa. I'd never really thought about chartreuse. It looked like Shrek. And, my Mom never really liked me in green. But those first skeins jumped into my cart o...

The week I go back to work after the holidays is always a bad week for knitting (as much as it is good to be back with good friends and getting the job done). I manage to get in a bit of knitting when I wake up and a bit at night, so this week wasn't a total knitting loss. But progress was slo...

I seem to be having a glut of "welcome to the new year, everything is going crazy" overtime at work and insanity with kids, but despite that, I did find a bit of time to knit over the weekend. And especially, a big thanks to Downton Abbey, when everything in my house comes to a halt and I can k...

It's been a while since I shared any dyeing with you, so I thought that for today's post, I would share a quick picture of some of the recent dyeing I've done. I've been working with a sock yarn blend that is 80% superwash merino, 10% cashmere, and 10% nylon. It has a very tight twist and i...

I'm sure I sound like I have lost my marbles to anyone who is not passionate about knitting. But, I have a new favorite yarn, and I really don't care who knows about it. Snug. I love you Snug. I love you for your cashmere content and for your beautiful, smooth, round, bulkiness. And I love ...

Hands down, the best Christmas presents we received this year were handknit hats from our dear friend Marguerite, a fun, intelligent woman, whose idea of a casual knit is a detailed Kaffe Fassett sweater. She is an inspiration. For Christmas Eve, she knit hats for everyone. Seriously, every...

My disasterous Cables and Lace Capelet is fixed. Just like that! I ripped off the oversized collar and reknit it on smaller needles and made it shorter. Suddenly, I have a beautiful capelet that makes me think of something Claire should be wearing on the Outlander TV show. The combination o...

I wanted to catch you all up on the knitting I have planned for the month of January. I've joined The Plucky Knitter WIP Wrangling KAL, the goal being to finish Plucky projects that were started before the new year during the month of January. I started Olivia at the end of November, but prom...

Cables and Lace Capelet was a pattern I wanted to knit as soon as I saw it. It had this Outlander/Scottish Highlands vibe and looked like it would be great to throw on as I walked out the door for yoga or coffee with friends. The pattern photo looked great. (c) Berroco I walked into this one...

Although I need to clean up for New Year's Eve company and make myself presentable, there is a lot of knitting/fiber related activity in my house at the moment. It's a good summation of my knitting year, covering all of the bases. There is blocking. More on this one to come as soon as it's dry...

I liked knitting Gadabout a lot. I like knitting cables and these were unique. And somehow, although I was able to memorize that pattern on the first repeat -- something that almost never happens with me -- it never got boring. Gadabout is one of those patterns where you want to do "just one...

I finished up my Cashmere Gadabout last night. It's blocking and there will be photos later on this week. Once it was drying, I picked back up with my Cables and Lace Capelet, which has been languishing for weeks while Christmas knitting got finished. And I'm so glad that I did! This projec...

[Click on the photo collage to see the larger version] This is my knitting year in review, or at least most of it. 2014 was a really good year for knitting in my house, likely because our Iceland trip spawned the need for lots of warm things early on and once my hat and cowl mojo got into ge...

I should have known it was going to be a bad trip, right? For openers, within minutes of my getting on the first plane, husband sends a series of photos that demonstrate that my months of careful training of the puppy are all going out the window. Immediately. He taunted me with photos all w...

More work on the Irish Hiking Scarf I'm knitting my youngest for Christmas. I'm about halfway there.