Archive for the 'Knitting' Category



Booga Bag

Published on November 29, 2007

  Here it is – a Booga Bag. Everybody needs one. I use it all the time. It usually has a small knitting project in it, a sock, a hat, something like that, and it carries my iPod and speakers. And I recently found more yarn in the same colorway, to make separate wee bags […]


My homespun!!!

Published on November 22, 2007

   My homespun!!!, originally uploaded by Petunia509. Here it is, such that it is!!! My first bit of homespun yarn that’s actually usable for something!   I’m knitting a narrow scarf, done on bias, and dressed up with a row of YO.  Blocking will show that bit of pattern off more.  The idea and directions are […]


found in Mom’s stash!

Published on November 21, 2007

When I root around in stuff, every once in a while, I find something that was my mother’s. She passed away last summer, at age 90, and was a fabulous knitter in her day. She knitted sweaters for the troops overseas in WWII. We kids all routinely wore hand-knits, cable work, Fair Isle, all of […]