Summer is hurtling through my life.  In the morning, I think “oh, today, surely, I will post those Columned Beaded Flagon stitch photos.”  And then the day gallops away with me and bedtime comes and I have not done so… Continue reading

I have knit a fair amount in the past couple of days – due to a brief road trip to Portland – and am refreshed!  Renewed in spirit and re-energized in mind.  Like a withered houseplant that has been watered… Continue reading

I really (really, really, really) want to swatch. And I cannot justify it. I am in the middle of a couple (okay 3 or 4) projects – including Jordan’s socks (I just have the toes to go). I told myself… Continue reading

Max wore his Easter sweater to brunch on Easter as planned. And we have the photos (with his Aunt Sonja)to prove it. Only the most heartless critic will notice that there are no buttons or button loops and that the… Continue reading

The “Spokane Ferocity” was designed to be a fun wear-with-a-t-shirt-and-jeans sort of thing. Maybe “dress it up or down” like in the fashion magazines. Mostly, it was a design challenge! A marvelous learning experience as I fussed along merrily with… Continue reading

Am I a process knitter or a project knitter? Somewhere in the middle, but probably closer to process. There are scads of chic sweaters, cool leg-warmers, fetching coats, etc. that I would love to wear, but which I could not… Continue reading

When I first seriously considered starting a knitting blog, I did what I presume any wise knitter would do: I swatched. That is, I wrote a few “mock blogs” (in secret — didn’t even tell my family I was trying… Continue reading

It occurs to me that someone who has not seen me in my leather chair surrounded by yarn may wonder, based upon my heel flap nonsense, whether I have much knitting experience at all. Questions such as “How on earth… Continue reading