Chris is my new best friend.  I heart Chris.  Look what was waiting in my mailbox: I saw it and thought . .  . that’s a really big package for a two socks’ worth of yarn.  Look what she sent me: That’s.  Wow.  That’s a bunch of nice yarn.  There’s lots of Regia, there–you can […]

Atlatls in the news: Pennsylvania May Let Hunters Use Prehistoric Weapon  Hot damn!  I think that’s our very own atlatl-Bob they’re talking to.  Hooo-weeeee.  He makes the darts and atlatls we all use.  And he’s also been known to be a flax-pusher.  Atlatls in the hollers: Scott kills one mean box  Hot damn!  That cardboard […]

Updatey-goodness: Brigid’s Samhain photos rock.  And they provide evidence of ruana-finishing fun.  Last weekend, while many of the Knitters Review folks were retreating to the not-terribly-far-away Graves Mountain, we assorted nuts went to the wilds near Charlottesville to celebrate Samhain; the Celtic New Year and the original holiday upon which Halloween was founded.  This was […]

It’s all about the good, the bad, and the goopy around here. Let me start with the good.  The Socktoberfest socks are lovely to knit, and the finished sock is comfortable and warm. The bad is that we apparently have some sort of appliance-related curse.  First, our furnace died on Thursday.  And though we know […]