Amy Artisan

Recently I had the opportunity to meet Baby Luke, the late July arrival that had me diving into my dishcloth cotton. I dropped off a meal so his Mom didn’t have to cook and also gifted a few baby knits. His Mom and Grandma (who was visiting from CA) are both knitters & immediately wanted to [...]

Stitches Midwest was this past weekend here in Chicagoland. My last two years at Stitches have been “full on fiber” excursions for me - this year was different. Within the last month I received an email from the Debbie Macomber site that included a coupon for free admission to Stitches on Sunday when Debbie would be [...]

…Across the finish line…
On Thursday evening I finished my Olympic shawl as the men’s beach volleyball gold medal match began - it took 45 minutes to work my way across the final row. On Friday evening, I gave the shawl a good soak and then used my blocking wires to transform a lumpy mound of [...]

…no, unfortunately not a return to the isle where I snapped the picture in my blog header…
Well in advance of the buzz on Ravelry about the Ravelympics, I had started to ponder what my Olympic Knitting Project would be as I watched the games in Beijing.
For the Winter games in 2006, I joined in the [...]

My plan for Friday evening was simple - watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony and cast on for a new knitting project. Earlier this summer I started thinking about what my Olympic knitting project would be. As I mentioned during the Winter Knit Olympics, crafting has always been a part of Artisan Family Olympic Watching. For [...]