Got Gauge?

That would be a big “NO” this week. I was so excited to start two little baby hats for a friend that is expecting identical twin grandsons early next year. I love knitting hats so I asked if I could make them matching hats. She was delighted! (Most people are, but you never know.) I

Knitting For Me

I had a follow-up doctor’s appointment last week and one of the nurses in the office is a knitter. When I was in the office last winter, she commented on how much she liked the hat I was wearing. When I told her I knit it, she shared she was a knitter too! While I

The Creation of a Sock

I recently wrote about learning the technique of “German Short Rows” to knit my first pair of socks. Yes, a pair of socks! I say this because many people knit one and then lose interest. I did not have that experience at all! I couldn’t wait to start the next sock! Before I started my

Knitting Powers the Brain

Last weekend my daughter competed in the Garden State Games for figure skating. Our skating club was the host so I volunteered to take a shift during the competition. I was a locker room monitor. What does that mean? I just watched the locker room entrances and made sure no one went in that shouldn’t

Always Learning

Now where have I heard that before??? (Sorry, inside joke with my former corporate colleagues) The blog prompt for this post is “What is something you learned recently?” WordPress has been doing a bloganuary challenge and each day they send out a prompt to get their users writing. I haven’t been doing them each day

Knitting Love

Today’s Bloganuary prompt from WordPress is How do you show love? Since this is part knitting blog, I will relate the question to knitting. I think each object I knit shows love. I think creating something for someone shows how much you care just by the amount of time put into the process. Yes, I

Barre Scents

I am a bloodhound. Well, that’s what my husband calls me. I have a very good sense of smell according to him. Honestly, I think I have a normal sense of smell and Ron doesn’t have any…but I digress. Why am I talking about my nose? A WordPress writing prompt for #bloganuary is “Do you

Lies That Motivate

Today’s blog prompt from WordPress is “What’s a lie you tell yourself?“ I am rather sure I wrote about this in an earlier post but it it worth revisiting. I tell myself lies often when it comes to working out. Way back in the early 2000’s (Yes my fellow GenXers, the year 2000 is WAY

Chores

I am joining the bloganuary community. Each day is a new prompt to inspire a blog post. Today’s is “What chore do you find most challenging to do?” You can enjoy your hobby as much as you’d like, but there is always something that will be a “chore”. When you look up the definition, the

My Favorite Type of Knitting

In an earlier blog I mentioned the project I love to hate. Well, now I will talk a bit about my favorite knitting. Well, honestly, all knitting is my favorite for different reasons, but if I had to pick one type….it’s straight stockinette knitting in the round! I have been working on a sweater for