Episode 17.5– News!!

Episode 17.5 is ready. Thanks to SpinnDiva of Rambling Designs!! She designed this beautiful shawl and named it after me!! Then turned around, knit one, and sent it to me. In my favorite color!! I can’t thank you enough, SpinnDiva!! We fiber crafters are something else! Please check out her site and tell her IContinue reading “Episode 17.5– News!!”

Episode 16- Pointed Ramblings, New Hobbies

Episode 16 is now available Discussed: Falling into Sewing and Baking (I’m getting domesticated, eek!) Fabric/Sewing from a Knitter’s point of view Resist-Dyeing technique Running around Brooklyn lookin’ for fabric in all the wrong places(and some right places, too) Links: Resist Dyeing at Two Sheep Knitscene Magazine at Interweave Press(This is where the CPH patternContinue reading “Episode 16- Pointed Ramblings, New Hobbies”

Episode 15— 2008– NO FEAR, Books! and my ‘design’

Episode 15 is ready for your enjoyment! All subsequent regular blog posts are now at the New Blog!! The House of Wool Repute!! Creating Original Hand-Knitted Lace, by Margaret Stove Knitting Lace Triangles, by Evelyn A. Clark My Sources of Inspiration: Evelyn A. Clark Miriam L. Felton Megalogarnie SpinnDiva

Change can be a good thing…

Well ladies and gentlemen it is time for change yet again. First off. BeanKnits and Spins is still being hosted at Podshow but from here on out I will be posting show notes and related photos here on this blog. But, there’s a bigger change in store. I have joined forces with a variety ofContinue reading “Change can be a good thing…”

Pushed to the edge…

Warning: Major knitting self-thrashing ahead. WTF do I be doing when I’m supposed to be LEARNING stuff?! No really. It finally slapped me in the face like a 7th-grade lunchroom fight: My handspuns are coming out thicker than they LOOK. Whodathunk?! Case in point: That’s where BBB was before I surrendered and took it offContinue reading “Pushed to the edge…”