Category Archives: Knitting

Knitter’s (Orthodox) Festivus

By monnibo | Published: January 24, 2013

For the past four years, the Terminal City Yarn Wranglers on Ravelry have had a secret Santa-style gift exchange. We originally called it “Festivus Miracle Swap-o-Rama” and I’ve participated every year (2009, 2010, 2011). I wear my gifts with pride and constantly get compliments on them. However, each year we’ve experienced scheduling constraints as December is such a busy month for people. So this year, we decided to follow the example of Orthodox Christmas which is celebrated in January (December 25 in the Julian calendar corresponds to January 7 in the current Gregorian calendar). Thus, Knitter’s Festivus Year4 was celebrated Continue Reading »

Also posted in FO, Out & About, Swap | 1 Response

Proud to be a FictionKNITsta

By monnibo | Published: December 10, 2012

Earlier this autumn I heard about the FICTIONista project which is a collaborative of independent Canadian publishers to bring together female authors for meaningful book events. With the recently launched CWILA (Canadian Women in Literary Arts) drawing more and more attention to female writers and reviewers, I was happy to find out that FICTIONistas had been going since 2006. Then I learned that for the 2013 edition, the project would have a theme known as FictionKNITstas and incorporate textile arts into the mix. I applied when I heard the call for knitters (PDF)—they wanted to pair each knitter with an Continue Reading »

Also posted in Books | Tagged author tour, book tour, books, fictionKNITstas, Knitting, nicolai's daughters, stella harvey | 1 Response

Bite the Bullet and Block It

By monnibo | Published: November 5, 2012

A couple weeks ago at knitting meetup (gosh, has it been that long?) Jenn chastized me for not fixing the dropped stitch in my Multnomah and blocking it, despite having cast off the sucker more than a month earlier. She urged me to “take the five minutes” and fix the stitch. To be honest, what was stopping me was that I didn’t know how and didn’t want to screw it up. Basically it was a dropped stitch that I didn’t notice, but I must have realized a few rows later I was short one stitch, so I fudged it. I Continue Reading »

Also posted in FO | Tagged block, finished object, FO, huckleberry knits, knit shawl, Knitting, multnomah | 1 Response

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Knitter’s (Orthodox) Festivus

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