Smartly Ribbed Cardigans circa 1950′s I love the rich cable work on these cozy cardigans.  The combination of ribbing with cables creates an interesting texture in two quite differently styled sweaters. The free pattern download is available here: Smartly Ribbed Cardigans

Please go here for the recipe.  Gluten Free 5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake The only way I could get the recipe layout to work was through a PDF file.  

In the spirit of women like my mom and grandmother, who shared knitting patterns freely amongst their friends, and who made knitting a truly social hobby, I’ll be featuring one vintage knitting pattern a week, for free download, on this blog.  I’ve inherited a number of vintage knitting books from my family and the patterns [...]

The last thing my daughter needed for Christmas was yet another pair of fingerless gloves but when I saw this pattern in the latest edition of Spin Off magazine, I had to knit them.  The free pattern is available here:  wild and warm Surprisingly, I didn’t have any handspun vicuna yarn on hand, as called for in [...]

I’m not very good at setting and keeping New Year’s resolutions. This year, however, I have definitely resolved to continue with my resolution to cut down my teaching load; to allow more time for knitting, spinning and visiting my daughter in (warm) Vancouver. To that end I’ve been approved for a one year leave of [...]