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Color Me Mine

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Today, me and my daughter went to Color Me Mine. If you’re not familiar with them, they are a pottery painting place. You go, pick a piece of plain pottery, paint it with color glazes to your liking, and then they fire it for you.
I picked a chopstick bowl to paint. I’m not going to use it for eating, though! I’m going to be using it as a yarn bowl! It will take about a week for me to get it back. I’ll be impatiently waiting for it. šŸ˜€
Needless to say, we had a wonderful time, just Mom/Daughter time! [read more]

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How to dye long gradient yarn at home!

I love Laura Nelkin! I’ve knit many, MANY of her designs. Ā I’ve been a member of herĀ M-ClubĀ for 2 years now. (Unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to join her this coming year and that makes me sad šŸ™ )

But she just put a tutorial together on how to do Long Gradient yarn dyeingĀ at home on her blog and I just wanted to share with everyone one. Ā I’m going to attempt to do one of these when I’m feeling better (I absolutely hate getting bronchitis! It knocks me on my butt for several weeks!) [read more]

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DIY Specialty Stitch Markers


I made the above stitch markers to help me keep track of individual stitches as I knit. I find them really helpful, especially in patterns when the stitches are really small. They are real helpful when designing your own pattern!
They aren’t hard to make, nor are they terribly expensive. All you need are shrinking plastic, permanent markers in several colors, a single hole punch, scissors,Ā Locking stitch markers,Ā and a shape to trace that is about two inches by two inches (I used a salt shaker which has an octagon for the bottom). [read more]