The Hook and I

Mariners’ Stitch & Pitch Originally uploaded by plainsight.

My son Jay just turned eight months old, and my husband, a big baseball fan, was chagrined to learn that I had taken him to his first major league game last night in Seattle. Why? Because it was Stitch and . . . → Read More: Jay’s first baseball game!

Crocheted embellishments and edgings like this one at Anthropologie are all the rage this season.

So, it was no suprise when recently a discussion erupted on the Crochet Partners e-mail list about how to make the holes in fabric necessary to add crochet to fabric. Lots of experienced thread crocheters use a tiny steel crochet hook to . . . → Read More: Tools and Techniques: Wing Needles and Stilettos

My daughter Selma is in Peace Camp this week and she has a very favorite counselor named Ariel who, I’m guessing, is about 15. She wanted to give her a little present on the last day, so I quickly made her this kerchief using some flag yarn I got just today from the Crochetville Sea of . . . → Read More: Quick Kerchief

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My RAOK Picasso Potholder, originally uploaded by plainsight.

Have I ever mentioned that crocheters are some of the nicest people on the planet? the folks over at Crochetville have a thread called Random . . . → Read More: A wish granted!

I have a quartet of books to review, so before my stack gets any higher, here goes:

Fun and Funky Crochet

I like the look and concept of this book better than the execution… Fun & Funky Crochet by Sophie Britten has written a book aimed at a gen-x and younger audiance. The book has a great introductory . . . → Read More: Crochet Library: Designing, crocheting, de-stashing

I jusr received issue #5 of Knit Knit. They describe themselves as “A biannual artist’s publication dedicatd to the intersection of traditional handcraft and contemporary art.” It’s a wonderful zine-style publication with article, interviews and amazing photographs of fiber ART. The current issue has an article about Sheila Pope’s crocheted sculptural installations which she crates . . . → Read More: KnitKnit

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John’s Vest, originally uploaded by plainsight.

I just mailed this vest off today, it’s for the son of a friend of mine in Princeton. It’s made with two strands of Cotton-Ease and I used the measurements . . . → Read More: John’s Vest

Nothing do do this Fourth of July? How about knitting a flag with 20-foot needles??

David Cole, the artist who created the flag has also knit a 14-foot . . . → Read More: Happy Independence Day