I have had several friends ask me, "how come you only knit from the cuff down?"  And I tell them, it is because of the short-row heel.  I've tried doing short-row heels on 3 pair of cuff down socks, and every pair has tiny holes in the heel that, for...

Things have been a bit off around here the past couple weeks.  I felt like I had hit a wall and couldn't recover.  Personally, I think I was having a little problem with depression.  I was so lethargic, and couldn't even enjoy my knitting and...

OK, I have finally completed my first TOE UP sock.  A Wendy Johnson pattern, called Double Eyelet Rib socks.  Using Judy's magic cast-on, I couldn't believe how easy it was.  And here I have put off making them this way because I kept thinking I would...

Remember all those items I had started on while recuperating from my fall?? Well, I had this wonderful cloth bag my friend Wendy had given me, and I had put all of my WIP's in this bag to keep them from being scattered about or laid upon. So what...

Over the weekend I was playing around with a bit of rose colored cotton. I knit a washcloth using a pattern from Knitability, called Dishcloth Duo. You can download the free .PDF file here. It is a wonderful dishcloth, but it also is a wonderful...