The pattern for this shawl is available for free download here Norma G Shawl
It requires 1- 600 meter skein of Lopi Laceweight yarn, available for purchase here, or any laceweight yarn of your choice.
I used just one skein of this 100% wool, hand dyed yarn to complete the shawl pictured.  It’s a beautiful yarn to [...]

As part of my quest for new adventures in fibre, I’ve just completed this crocheted , tee shirt styled sweater.  I was skeptical about how it would turn out during the entire construction phase, half expecting that I’d be frogging it in the end and using this luscious yarn for a knitted sweater instead.  I’m [...]

25 pairs of liquid brown eyes, staring out at me from their cozy barn space, is a sight I will not soon forget.  A couple of weeks ago, on a cold April day, my daughter and I visited Peeter’s Pride Alpacas, just north of Edmonton, in Canada.
Laurie Peeters, and her husband Pete, own 30 alpacas [...]

I have long avoided lace knitting, after a couple of experiences with very tricky patterns that left me with a pile of fine tangled yarn and major frustration.
After reading Elizabeth Zimmermann’s advice, however, I’m now working on my 4th lace shawl, using the Einband Icelandic laceweight yarn available here schoolhouse press
The trick, for me, is [...]

Although this is primarily a knitting blog, my intro blurb claims to “weave my knitting and teaching lives together”.  I haven’t written about my teaching self for some time, due to the fact that  I’ve been on a one year, unpaid leave this year.
Full time teaching  with my own classroom that is.  I’ve  still been teaching [...]