G. Knerd

This weekend, I decided to finally bust out the crock pot and do some yarn dyeing.  I’ve dyed yarn once or twice before, and I’ve always enjoyed it, but I’ve never really been serious about it. I think that’s about to change. It all started with some nice white wool yarn, which I wound into […]

I try hard to think about finishing even when I’m starting things.  One of the worst feelings when knitting is getting partway into a project and realizing, “Oh crap.  If I’d only done X when I started, I would have been able to do Y, which would have been virtually invisible.  But like an idiot […]

In my last post, I restated the rules that I’d put in place for starting work on Erica’s new wedding blanket.  To recap: Finish Marissa’s wedding blanket first Finish Tristan’s cARGHdigan first Figure out the schedule for knitting, so I would know when I was slipping I’ve now broken all three rules. Whoops.  I’m sure […]

When I decided that I was going to knit Erica a wedding blanket, I said there were a few rules: Finish Marissa’s wedding blanket first Finish Tristan’s cARGHdigan first Figure out the schedule for knitting, so I would know when I was slipping On the other hand, just because I decided to wind some of […]