Clubland
yarn candy There was a time, dear friends, when “clubbing” meant (to me at least) staying out way too late dancing and...
View Articlecables uncrossed
The old adage that a woman will eventually turn into her mother is coming true for me. Not , necessarily, a bad thing. My mom’s pretty cool, as mothers go. My current cardigan project has thrown this...
View ArticleMarch: In like a Lion…
“Alluvium” is finished just in time for the first day of spring. I live in the mid-west so I know better than to assume I’ll be having an actual spring. It will be like always: mostly winter until...
View ArticleReading unraveled
I once started reading a book by Julian Barnes called “England, England” which I put down about half-way through. Unusual for me, since I rarely put down an unfinished book, unfinished sweater , or...
View ArticleCommand Performance Knitting
Scully mitts for BFF My BFF has been asking me forever to knit her an “Irish” sweater, one like she had back in college when she was just a “wee lass”. Or she would like a plain black pullover with...
View ArticleRe-hash
It used to be that I would cast on for a project, work it through, like it or dislike it and move on but, these days, it seems no matter what I’m working on I will have to do it more than once. It’s...
View ArticleStripes
It’s the first day of April and, although I’m not a sailor, I am waxing poetic about all things nautical. Chiaki Hayashi’s “March Nautical Hat” Josee Paquin’s “Robin” “Vienna” by ViennaJoyRunner ©...
View ArticleTen Reasons for Knitters to be Happy
I woke up cranky this morning. I’m not sure why, maybe because we paid our taxes over the weekend, or maybe because the Hubbs got called out of town unexpectedly, throwing a monkey wrench into my...
View ArticleWrap and Turn
I’m currently working on a new cardigan, “Constant Carving” by Annamaria Otvos. I love this cardigan. It’s a top-down, set in sleeve cardigan with short-row shoulders and picked up collar and button...
View ArticleSecond time around?
Today’s daily prompt from “WordPress” is “second time around: Tell us about a book you can read again and again without getting bored — what is it that speaks to you? I don’t usually participate in the...
View ArticleSummer knitting, had me a blast….
I keep hearing people say that summer is “over”. Presumably because Labor Day is coming up this weekend and, indeed, here in the US, that is the unofficial mark of the end of summer. Labor Day weekend...
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