5 Tips I Wish I Knew When I Started Knitting

5 Tips I Wish I Knew When I Started Knitting

When I first picked up knitting, I dove right in—no roadmap, no mentor, just me, my yarn, and a whole lot of trial and error. Looking back now, I realize how much confusion, frustration, and wasted yarn I could have avoided if someone had just shared a few basic...
5 Reasons to Knit For the Right Reasons

5 Reasons to Knit For the Right Reasons

I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on all the projects I’ve ever cast on. Not every one was the home-run I hoped for. Some were complete flops; others, outright mistakes. As a knitter, of course I take rejection of my work personally—especially when it’s...
Revisiting Old Boomerang Shawls: Step It Up

Revisiting Old Boomerang Shawls: Step It Up

I’ve had an abundant amount of energy lately that propels me to make something—anything. It’s like the dopamine monster 👹 attacks and now you’re doing what you can while you have the surge of happy energy. I’ve been feeling down and out for the past few weeks, maybe...
First cast on of this Year

First cast on of this Year

Even though it’s later into January, I wanted to celebrate this year by marking off my first cast on. I’ve waited till the new year to cast this too. So my eldest son was looking back at some of the sweaters that I made him. One sweater he always said was favorite. It...
Re-Purposing an Old Favorite Yarn

Re-Purposing an Old Favorite Yarn

Two years ago when the pandemic started, I purchased a yarn from lionbrand that I absolutely adored. It was Jade Green, and it’s from the line: Shawl in a Ball. I may be biased to this line of yarn because was the first yarn that I used for my first shawl. The color...
My New Favorite Shawl Pattern

My New Favorite Shawl Pattern

Scrolling online for a project to complete on the go I had very specific requirements. It had to be quick, and it had to be engaging, and it had to be fun. The other requirement is that it had to use yarn that I was looking to repurpose. Let me back up, in my earlier...