Events

  • Stitches West 2011

    Sarah and I had a great time at Stitches!  Our classes were great, our teachers were great, the other knitters were great, the Market was great…   If I had any brain left after all the excitement and stimulation and… Continue reading

  • Getting Pumped For Stitches West

    Sarah and I have been crazy busy getting ready to for Stitches West – we fly out crazy early Thursday morning!  Not only have we been knitting feverishly to finish our wardrobe, we have been tidying up our sites and… Continue reading

  • Fair Time!

    We go to the Western Washington State Fair in Puyallup every year.  Every year.  And sometimes twice!  It is a huge one — something like the 8th largest in the world.  And there is surely something for everyone — esp.… Continue reading

  • Saturday Afternoon Knit-Ins

    Sarah and I are blessed to be able to combine business with knitting, all in the midst of our family life – and with the flexibility to get to the gym, Bible Study, etc. fairly regularly.  Really, really, we are. … Continue reading

  • WWKIPD 2010

    WWKIPD is World Wide Knit in Public Day.  It began in 2005 and the point is for knitters to “ show the world that knitting’s not a dead or dying craft and to help expand the idea of what a… Continue reading

  • Birthday Week 2010

    Yesterday was my birthday and I had a lovely day – which included knitting on the deck in the sunshine.  I did not, after all, begin the lily-of-the-valley lace shawl – as I have so many projects going at the… Continue reading

  • Spring Fair 2010

    Yesterday, George and I accompanied our daughter Sonja and her husband Jordan to the Spring Fair in Puyallup.  We go to the huge Western Washington State Fair there every September without fail, but had never been to the Spring Fair. … Continue reading

  • Socks: The Other March Madness

    100 Years Ago Today:  March 29, 1910             Today is “loud sock” day for girls at the high school.  Girls came out with noisy hosiery in blue, red, yellow, green, purple and white.  No two stockings worn by one girl… Continue reading

  • BRONZE!

    This is what Bronze looks like!                                   I knit, knit, knit through the Closing Ceremonies.  Through the Norwegian national anthem, the Greek national anthem, the Olympic hymn, and the Russian national anthem.   I got a little nervous when… Continue reading

  • Knit-O-Lympics Update #1

    Still catching my breath from Madrona – but gamely stepping up to the Olympic knitting challenge!   According to my initial calculations, I would have to churn out about 3 inches of sock a day (okay, Sarah, you can stop… Continue reading