Knit, Blog & Be Happy!

In most climates, you are celebrating warm summer weather so why not begin our "Spotlight" series with Quince & Co. Sparrow. (I say most as we have quite a bit of cool fog here on the coast.) I will begin each Spotlight with a little note about the featured product and follow up with a lot of project ideas and photographs for you all to dream about!  Quince & Co. Sparrow is an organic linen that is grown in Belgium and then spun in Italy. Quince says,"Sparrow is a plain little yarn, beautiful in its simplicity. Its clean, smooth hand is crisp as...

I am going to start this post with a bit of honesty.  I received two bags of Stra from Woolfolk to knit a sample with over a year ago.  I wasn’t inspired by a project or the yarn so I popped it into my stash and it sat – and sat – and sat. Spring forward, and the time came around to purge my stash.  I looked at the long neglected Stra, knew we did not have a sample in the shop, and figured I would knit a quick sweater in it. The Field Day Cardigan by Ozetta is second in...

Many of us will be traveling this summer, whether by car, train or plane.  As we move into the “travel” season, it is a good time to cover some travel tips for taking our knitting or crochet projects with us. Select a project that is easy for you to work on while traveling. You might be chatting with friends or need to pick the project up and put it down numerous times. This is not the time for intricate charts or involved stitch patterns. Take a project that is light in color. The lighting on planes and in hotel rooms tends...

So I spent the weekend cleaning some things out in my home and one of my favorite things to go through is my stash.  I do not keep a big stash, except for all of the yarn at 490 Lighthouse, but I do go through it at least once a year. So here are my very rules for cleaning out my stash:I empty everything on to my dining room table – Every bin, every project bag and every little bit of leftover yarn. Then I arrange all of the yarn by weight.  That allows me to look at each skein and make some quick...

When I saw the test knitting call for Isabel Kramer’s newest shawl, SSP, go out on Instagram, I knew the project would find its way onto my needles. The shawl is designed in 6 sections, using different slip stitch patterns or stripes in each section. Once the large first section is done; it is on to the party!     The project was designed with Brooklyn Tweed Loft in mind and I thought that I would use the original colors for the project.  As always, I peeked through the complete SSP project on Ravelry and spied Stanetty’s shawl. I thought...