I spent an idyllic afternoon in a quiet house with peaceful music playing cuddled up in my newly knitted Artesian Shawl knitting the last rows of the second sleeve of my Caramel Cardigan while reading a Ngaio Marsh mystery and… Continue reading

Well, almost. I refer, of course, to the Christmas Knitting! I ordered the yarn yesterday — and now I am in a race to finish my Autumn Knitting before the Christmas yarn arrives. As I am very, very nearly done… Continue reading

Sarah and I love it when someone emails us with “Hey, can you teach a class on how to knit _______ ?” It is always the start of a new adventure. Because the answer is always “Yes!” Our current adventure… Continue reading

Okay, my last blog post — while freakin’ adorable — had little to do with knitting. Altho I did mention doing a goodly amount of knitting. So, I figure I owe it to the knitters among you to do a… Continue reading

Recuperating from foot surgery is kind of awesome. I pretty much have to sit around all day with my foot up. So, I have been knitting and watching sports and reading and knitting and playing games on my iPad and… Continue reading

I am doing my Happy Dance because I finished Colette’s “Yzma Blanket”!! And it was done 2 days before her first birthday! Yay! It is my own design and I am thinking of writing it up as a pattern because… Continue reading

When we left for New York City, it was Summer here and when we got back it was Fall — calendar-wise, but also in every leaf, in the scents carried by the breeze, in the quality of the daylight, in… Continue reading

The Gyre Cardigan is done! I am soaking it (and rinsing and soaking and rinsing…) to get the excess dye out of the yarn. I suspected it was over-dyed and, yup, sure enough it is. I will block it this… Continue reading

More thoughts on travel knitting. George and I are headed to New York City next week to visit Geoff — so I still have travel knitting on the brain. And why do I call it “Mighty Travel Knitting”? Because there… Continue reading

Traveling with knitting is always a mixed bag — chances are I will be so involved with doing what I traveled to the destination to do that I will have little time for knitting. Which is probably as it should… Continue reading