Category Archives: Knitting

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 »

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The Yarn That Chelle Gave

By monnibo | Published: July 29, 2012

Chelle is much too good to me. She can’t knit with animal fibres, and was knitting away with this lovely skein of Blue Moon Fibre Arts Luscious Silk. But she wasn’t feeling the love and after frogging two different projects {Ravelry links}—both of which I loved—she quit the yarn and gifted it to me. As for me, my knitting mojo has been gone for the past 5 or 6 months. I’m a serial monogamist—one novel at a time, one knitting project at a time, one boy at a time—so I have been knitting my Multnomah shawlette foraaaaages. I’ve finished Continue Reading »

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The Yarn Harlot Visits Vancouver

By monnibo | Published: July 15, 2012

I managed to secure a ticket to a public lecture by The Yarn Harlot (aka Stephanie Pearl-McPhee) presented by KnitSocial. Wednesday night, after a particularly stress-induced day, with some much-needed frozen yogurt, I met up with some friends at the Vancouver Public Library downtown for the talk. Stephanie is a self-identified ‘knitting humourist’ with very little competition in her niche market, so it made for an entertaining and informative talk. This Is Your Brain on Knitting: In this funny and interesting lecture, we’ll take a look at what science can tell us about the way knitting has an impact on Continue Reading »

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