Posts Tagged“knitting”

September is here. Kids and teens are back to school and we are about to start some ‘normal’ routine. Even if it is just for a few weeks until the upcoming Jewish holidays. As much as I had enough of the summer​ days, with kids getting up SO late​, it’s not easy to get back into the swing of things related to school days. On the other hand it’s so nice to see their faces out of bed in the morning and to enjoy some home alone hours, if you know what I mean. I think when you have grown…

Yesterday on my morning walk I found myself reflecting back at the past week. There has been so much going on that I can hardly get it all processed in my busy head. So I thought why not share it here with you to get a better picture of it, as if my blog is my ‘morning pages’. So, Welcome to a week in the life of a maker, designer, teacher, mom, wife, sister and a ‘very tidy house’ lover! Every morning whenever I have a chance I’ll grab a morning walk in our local park, about a 10 minute…

These beautiful Jelly Rolls socks by Mara Catherine Bryner are a special guest on my YouTube channel this week. I finished knitting the toe about two weeks ago and was just about to graft the stitches. I thought it would be a good idea to add the Kitchener stitch on socks knitting into my video tutorials using ​this joyful ​pair as a model.​ Kitchener stitch Is a technique of grafting together two lines of live stitches by creating a new row of stitches between them. It’s the last part of socks knitting, after shaping the toe. It creates a magic connecting the…