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Happy Holidays!

Well, I’m off to NJ for the holidays and am happy to report that while the Christmas knitting is not 100% complete, I’m in good shape. Pair #3 of the slippers were felted last night and #4 are knit. Tonight, #4 get seamed on the train and felted when I get home. I’m tempted to [...]

First Pair! Plus Felting By Hand

I started working on my slippers on Friday night. In about a half an hour, I had two souls. Today I turned out 4 sides and two tabs in about an hour and a half. Now they needed to be felted, but I don’t have a washing machine, I would have to wait til I [...]

Last Minute….Again

Why do I always wait til the last minute to think about Christmas knitting? While some of you have been busy planning since July (or at least October), I haven’t taken heed again this year. I’ve decided to make 4 pairs (possibly 5) of the French Press Felted Slippers. They are actually quite quick to [...]

Rustic

I found these photos of the Highland Folk Museum in Kingussie, Scotland and something about them spoke to me.  Makes me think about our digital/technological culture and how the simple things are sometimes taken for granted.  I could picture myself in the 1930′s on a cold windy evening wrapped up in a shawl, knitting a [...]

Welcome to My New Home!

Welcome to my new home!  I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, a very long time actually, but neoknits finally has a new home.  After a little push from Connie (and her beautiful new site) I decided I had procrastinated enough.  It was time! I’ve been working in collaboration with my wonderful web [...]

Go Vote! Knitscene Spring 2010 Cover

Knitscene has narrowed down their Spring Issue cover to two sweaters and they’d like you to vote on which you like best. Just so happens that one of those two sweaters is mine and I’m super excited by the possibility I could actually land the cover! So go on over and check it out. Voting [...]