First there was Maryland Sheep and wool, for which I made a few dozen bags.  At the last second.  With feeling (and excellent audio books spurring me along). Most of the bags found happy homes, but I do have some orphans I should list.  I finished by the skin of my teeth and took off […]

Right, so, I’ve been working away, thinking in terms of modularity and mobility.  I decided to make an afghan as my project for Clara’s wool-along, since that seems like the best way to unify so many different wools.  My February square (yes, February.  I know)  is knitted from Cormo that I dyed in a crockpot.  […]

There were 28 inches of snow on the ground when I went to sleep last night, and it’s still snowing now.  Sideways.  It’s snowing sideways in Virginia. I love the Seussian properties things take after a heavy snow.  I particularly love the snow gnome hats my little solar garden lights grow.  These are the biggest […]

I’m now so sucked into playing with the fancy new camera that I am not happy with any of the photographs I’m taking.  Any of them.  And yet, I want to document things I’m making and seeing.  So I’ll suck it up as best I can. The leaf-lace shawl is blocked and ready for my […]

Lord a’mercy, I do let things slide.  I’ve finished a couple of pairs of socks I haven’t shown you, added a beautiful new tree to the garden to whom I have not introduced you, been to a fantastic music festival I haven’t talked about, read some huge number of books I haven’t reviewed, experienced a […]

This is how we’re starting. Photos, unmanipulated, as I sort.  The sorting will be no small feat–I’m going to have to buy an external hard drive if I want my laptop to continue to function.  The hard drive in this puppy is just too small. If these are the only really good photos I get […]

(how’s that for a lazy music allusion in a post title?) Scott and I scampered off to Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana for a couple of weeks, and I forgot to warn you in advance. We visited family and then we visited the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone. I fell desperately in love with Wyoming. I’m […]

New hedgerow socks for my Mom, who is healing from surgery and gearing up for chemo and radiation.  The Frija is officially a hit with my Mom, who loves the color and the yarns’ exquisite softness. The hedgerow madness continues.  I finished these socks and needed movie theater knitting, so I grabbed the leftovers from […]

I’ve been repeating myself a lot lately.  As I’ve mentioned, it’s been quite a spring here for us.  I’ve been feeling overtaxed and overwhelmed and not terribly interested in taking on challenging projects–unless dirt and stone were involved.  Hence, the wall, mindless reading, and some repetitive knitting. As I was building, I had a bad […]

I mentioned a while back that I’d been doing some pattern designing.  Well, my second original pattern is now available for free on Knitters Review.  Part of what has been so fun about designing these first patterns is all of the cooperation and support I’ve received from my friends.   Jane and Clara encouraged me to […]