Category Archives: Everything Else
Responding to the Knit-Signal
The Yarn Harlot has thrown up her version of the bat signal: the knit-signal. She’s asking for knitters to come together and help out Haiti.
She asked for knitters to come together and donate money to Doctors Without Borders under the umbrella of Knitters Without Borders.
I wanted to donate some money to the Haiti relief [...]
Goodbye and Hello
There’s lots of knitting going on here, but unfortunately not a lot of pictures to prove it. Blogs are better with pictures, so I’ll try to keep this short.
My good friend Hoang is moving from Los Angeles to Denver this week, so he had a going-away party on Saturday night. He’s been asking me [...]
A Little Yarn Porn*
*Don’t worry – this is SFW.
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hitting up La Knitterie Parisienne in Studio City for the first time. I went with a single purpose: to buy yarn for a baby sweater pattern I’m drafting.
Of course, the moment I walked into the place I felt the urge to splurge. Though it’s [...]
Introducing Knitters for Kiva
I’m proud to introduce Knitters for Kiva, a new group that will hopefully inspire many of you to take part in the exciting and inspirational microfinance revolution.
Learn more about Kiva here.
Here’s the basics: Kiva is an organization that helps people in developing nations acquire short-term microloans. These microloans often go to women and people who [...]
Dress to Impress
Oh, hello! Didn’t see you there. I’ve been busy making marmalade.
And yes, I dress like that whenever I’m in the kitchen as a matter of pride. You believe me, don’t you?
I’ve made two batches already.
It requires a lot of chopping and a lot of patience.
And at the end you kinda think, “I worked [...]
Ravelry to the rescue!
I always forget just how much yarn sleeves use. To me, they’re always an afterthought. They’re just little tubes after all, right? Wrong. They take up a lot of yarn. And you have to make two of them. I was reminded of this as I started knitting sleeve #1 for Starsky this week:
I started [...]
Going green
I haven’t been able to do any knitting in the last 48 hours, but I have been quite the little eco-friendly person.
Last night, I went on a hike to see the Leonid meteor shower. It was pretty chilly out there, so I brought along my entrelac scarf, fake isle hat, and miracle mitts to [...]
Kitten Mittens – the full commercial!
Or should I say, “Kitten Mittons!!”
I’ve gotta get cracking on my own set!
Introducing Nocturnalknits.com!
Welcome to nocturnalknits.com!
I’ve been planning on moving my blog to its own domain for a long while now, but other projects and the daily grind have gotten in the way. I hope you like the new design! When I’m not knitting or writing, I work as a web developer, so I wanted to make sure [...]
It’s Always Sunny… Kitten Mittens
A friend of mine just asked me if I could make her a set of these:
As a huge “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” fan, I can’t resist!
(Though I’m going to make her sign a waiver so she won’t sue me when her cat claws the crap out of her face while trying to administer [...]
