Ravelry Days of Silence

As some of you may know, Ravelry is retiring the Classic version of their site on April 1. The only option after that will be NuRav, which still causes eyestrain, headaches, migraines, and even seizures for some people. This is why you will never see my posting a link to Ravelry, ever. It can be…

Podcast Roundup

As a crafter, my hands and my eyes are frequently occupied. If I want entertainment while I work, it has to be consumed with my ears. Sometimes this takes the form of re-watching old shows on Netflix that I really don’t have to pay attention to. Sometimes I listen to music. If I’m craving something…

WIP-Cracking Wednesday: Pool Party

First let’s start this post with a mini muggle vocabulary lesson. In knitting, “pooling” has absolutely nothing to do with water. Pooling is what happens when you’re knitting with a yarn that has many different colors in it and the same colors start stacking on top of one another making a “pool” of a single…

Vocabulary for Muggles: Frogging

One big reason for not posting my oldest WIPs yesterday was that I think they may require frogging. No, I don’t mean I need to venture out into the night and start capturing unsuspecting frogs with my bare hands, though I hear that is a lot of fun. Frogging refers to the action of unravelling…

Vocabulary for Muggles: WIP

Pronounced “whip”, WIP is an acronym for work in progress. It’s another one of those words that is used in many different contexts and isn’t specific to knitting, but may still confuse the muggles given how much we tend to talk about them. The thing about knitting is, for many of us the most exciting…

Vocabulary for Muggles

As a knitter, I am aware that many of the words that come out of my mouth have absolutely no meaning to the general public. Talking to me can be very confusing for non-knitters. So could reading my blog. In fact, when I came across this video a while back, it was like looking a…

Default Setting: Knit

I had one of those groggy mornings when your brain really hasn’t caught up to your body in the waking up process. I got out of the shower, lotioned my face, brushed my wet hair, and then…couldn’t remember what came next. First thought to pop into my head was, “Knit? No, that can’t be right…”…

Knit Fit: Day Two

After a good night’s rest at my aunt and uncle’s house, I returned to Knit Fit for my second class, Beginner Pattern Writing with Jen Hagen. I was pleased to see several of the same students from the Self Publishing class – clearly a group of people on a mission. Jen was a wealth of…

In Which Technology Hates Me

I know I promised to blog about Knit Fit today, and believe me, I really want to. Unfortunately technology has conspired against me. I took some awesome photos while I was there and I’m still struggling a bit trying to figure out how get them onto my sister’s computer and formatted and edited properly. It…

Welcome!

You have just stumbled upon The Secret Life of Yarn! Before I start revealing some of those secrets, let me introduce myself. Up until recently I was a “scientist” – that is I studied Biology in college and intended to continue my scientific studies in grad school as soon as I saved up enough money to…