It’s here

It’s here

It’s official.  It snowed today in my town for the first time this winter. . Are you ready? . Have you made sure your kids have snow pants that fit?  That is my job tonight. Gah!  We are pulling out all our winter wear and making sure we all have snow pants,...
Chickadee Anyone?

Chickadee Anyone?

. Chickadee is one of our 12 in 12 sweaters this year…if you don’t know the history of 12 in 12 read to the bottom of that blog link for details. . The amazing Ysolda Teague is the designer of the pattern and the author of the terrific book  Little Red in...
Halloween Window

Halloween Window

We took down our scarecrow to make room for Halloween in our front window! . How cute is this? . . . . . Lest you think we just forgot about our scarecrow…he now has a place of honor by our knit tree!  At least until the snow flies! . . Happy Halloween!...
3 years and counting…

3 years and counting…

. We are celebrating 3 years this week at Darn Knit Anyway.  Wow.  This is where people would usually say the time has flown by.  It really hasn’t.  I can’t believe how much work this little business is and I feel like I have aged a decade. . Being a small...
3 years and counting…

25 things

I was digging through my old facebook posts…you’ve all heard about the rumors of private messages  becoming public on Facebook?   Well,I was digging into my old facebook posts from 2009 and while I didn’t find any private messages, I did come...
A sweater for a pig

A sweater for a pig

. Our lovely Kim rides horses.  I am sure there is a better way to say that; a fancier horse word…but for lack of fancy horseperson vocabulary…she rides horses. . She boards a horse at a place (again…I am sure there is a term) in Wisconsin.  This...
Elizabeth on my needles

Elizabeth on my needles

I’m not knitting the September sweater.  I am knitting this one instead. . Elizabeth.  Here is the Ravelry page… . . . I am using Liberty Wool color Painted Desert and I am having fun knitting it.  That is great right? ....
3 years and counting…

Why you gotta be so mean?

. People can be mean. . I wonder why?  What is the purpose?  I wonder why people feel the need to say things to make people feel bad. . I have  friend who had an open house celebration for her business and she had a local chef making some appetizers for her. Someone...
Paint on the Water

Paint on the Water

Stopped by a cool event this morning in Stillwater.  Paint on the Water. . In addition to these artists from all over the country (who by the way are just starting these masterpieces).  There will be break dancing competitions, singers and MCs.  It’s all family...
Why didn’t someone warn me?

Why didn’t someone warn me?

. I am sick to death of 12 sweaters in 12 months. . Why didn’t someone warn me? . Actually lots of people did warn me; yarn reps, other shop owners, employees, customers, random people at Target… . They all said I was crazy, how in the world did I think I...