Ravelympics, here I come!
Don’t you just love those clever folks over at Ravelry? They’ve come up with the 2008 Ravelympics, a sort of knitting olympics, where the goal is to cast on and…
read more August 8, 2008
Category: Musings
Miracle Mitts
After whipping out my Kaleigh Kap, I was quickly looking for another project to knit on my brand new set of DPNs from Knit Picks. I remembered Eunny Jang’s Endpaper…
read more July 25, 2008
Kaleigh Kap – Free Pattern!
This pattern is available free on laurabirek.com! Also, you can check it out on Ravelry. One of my coworkers recently became a dad for the first time, and I had…
read more June 25, 2008
My book, slightly abridged
Here’s a sneak peek of my forthcoming book, Picture Perfect Knits: In case you’re wondering, I dropped the main text of the book into wordle and let it work its…
read more June 13, 2008
What I did last week
Los Angeles to New York via Austin, New Orleans, Atlanta, Clarksville (MD). 3,300 miles. 8 days. Check out the interactive map. While I wasn’t driving, I was knitting Starksy. I…
read more March 24, 2008
It will haunt your nightmares
How does one get out of a knitting funk? By knitting joke patterns, of course! This is the famed adult balaclava pattern that has made such a splash on ye…
read more February 28, 2008
Box of Goodness
Don’t you just love it when something like this arrives at your door? That’s one enormous box of yarn. My roommate and I placed a huge order through WEBS last…
read more November 1, 2007
Fake Isle Finally Finished
I love projects that just fly off the needles and still look like I slaved over them. Fake Isle is one of these projects. It looks much harder than it…
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