The Blue Brick has 500 followers! Watching the stats on this blog grow has been a very neat experience, we also just passed the 300,000 hit mark. I’ve been wondering about whether it was due for a refresher. When I post about crafts sometimes I…
So it was Lintilla by a landslide… but one of the comments (the lovely Rayna from the Crystal Diva blog) recommended a look at this: It’s Trillian by Martina Behm, the same designer who created Lintilla. I was instantly smitten and cast on. And I’d…
Everyone who knows me knows that turquoise, browns and blues are my colours. Every time I walk into a yarn store I am lamentably predictable. But then… then I picked up this lovely thing. This is Iris, one of the new colours from Tanis Fiber…
I still haven’t processed all the photos from our trip to El Salvador… but I did finish the Salvadoran knitting. Introducing Yolanda’s Henslowe: Every time I make one of these I think ‘these shawls go fast!’ and I always forget that bloody picot bind off.…
This hat was designed for my friend Johnathan to be a man-hat that’s actually fun to knit :) Enough cable to be interesting, while still being sufficiently manly for my Scotch-Irish friend who loves Celtic cable-work. This close fitting cabled touque features a celtic cable…
Thank you to everyone who commented or messaged me during my bout with the flu, I really appreciated the kind words :) Besides, it was a nasty flu – the kind that comes with bonuses, in this case, extreme back pain. On the plus side,…
Because long after Christmas has passed, and you’re into that long, dreary period of no holidays and slushy weather, odds are if you know a disorganized knitter then you still have at least one gift to look forward to. This, at least, is what I…
I’m on a designing binge lately – though to my shame I confess I have an embarrassing number of WIPs – including (gasp!) Christmas knitting that is long overdue. But really, what’s more exciting than getting an idea in your head and bringing it to…
Who doesn’t love custom stitch markers? They make knitting just a little more cheerful – and they’re super easy to make. I can’t take credit for this brilliant idea for snag-free markers, I got it from the fiber flux blog and I haven’t purchased stitch…
I’d like to celebrate today with a free pattern for my awesome blog readers :) Thank you everyone, for making the Blue Brick such an enjoyable, inspiring experience! This simple slouch/touque is a quick, mindless, easy knit for both guys and gals, but really, it’s one…
Los Guantes De Claudia made it to the front page of Ravelry today, this is a first for me! Woohoo!