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

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