Oops! Overlooked a project when I was ticking off the knitting in my bag(s). The Color Blocks Puzzle Box! It is adapted from Kathy Zimmerman’s Boxed Lilac (Knitter’s Magazine Summer 2015) — which is basically 2 rectangles of lace bordered… Continue reading

Actually, I think all the sand is gone from my toes, my ears, my hair — and The Beach is now a happy memory tucked in with all the many memories of past years. I have shook the sand (figuratively,… Continue reading

I am determined to share a few thoughts before I lose them entirely in the PPP (Pre-Beach Prepping & Packing)! Tomorrow, I fully expect (from 40+ years’ experience) that I will have no brain for anything but the game of… Continue reading

“I am an idiot.” That was me last night at about 10:00 when I realized that I had knit 2 1/2 inches of the back top of my Western Slope Tee in stockinette instead of garter. Okay, I know we… Continue reading

Hazy, dazy, lazy — call it whatever you want. It is the end of July, it is something like 90 degrees outside, it is a week til we go to the Beach and I don’t feel like doing anything but… Continue reading

It is crunch time for Summer Knitting! As in, get it done before it is too late. Not too late to wear — I anticipate being able to wear summer knits until mid-October. But too late to care about knitting… Continue reading

It is just too hot to knit blankets. Even at night. Sorry, people to whom I owe blankets, but it is just too hot. Really, it is too hot for wool. Much as I love wool, it is just too… Continue reading

Sometimes I like a little crochet. So when I saw the Floral Summer Mini Poncho in Stitch Diva’s “Wraps to Knit and Crochet” I thought “Why not?” (My daughters had several answers to that which included the words “Hippie” and… Continue reading

The weather here is glorious this week! The girls and I went down to the waterfront with the kids for lunch with my visiting sister — it is a perfect "Show off Tacoma" day and it is a great week… Continue reading

So what is hot in the Knitting World right now? Lace shawls, that’s what. Every yarn-y website, every yarn-y email in my inbox, every yarn-y magazine is a-flutter with lace shawls! And that makes sense because we are about to… Continue reading