After a crazy busy work week, with more crazy business slated for tomorrow, today was a little piece of awesome. My favorite Saturday of the month—fiber guild! I can honestly say that one of the very best parts of trading Chicago for the mountains of NE Tennessee has been finding …
Diner knitting (that’s Urban Cowboy on the TV in the background): Car knitting: Stump knitting: Hospital knitting coming up . . . My sweet dad is having knee replacement surgery tomorrow. Be well, my knitters.
I just looked up “slammed” in the dictionary to see how accurately it defined my current situation. Of the traditional definitions, I think “push or put somewhere with great force” comes the closest. Let’s try it in a sentence: “Pounded mercilessly into the fetid corner of forty-seven zillion deadlines, the …
So it turns out that the up side of the weighty heart-fullness I was feeling earlier this week was the joy I got to experience this weekend. The wedding that occasioned The Wedding Afghan happened, and it was everything you’d ever want a wedding to be. It was like the …
It’s been several days since I posted, so I just wanted to check in and say hi. Here are a few pics to give you an idea of what I’ve been up to. I cast on the second of my purple and red stripey socks while having lunch at the …
Today has been full of grading, gardening, walking, errand running, knitting, and dining with two of the loveliest people we know. And the blackberry bushes are blooming! This isn’t the best picture in the world, but if you look closely, you can see tons of little white blossoms. Blackberries …
Here are some of the things I love: Knitting Crazy Color Combinations Superheroes Villains Cool Graphics Smart Writing Nerds You know what? There’s a blog for that!!! This week I found Lattes and Llamas. The very first blog post I read was titled, “2015 Geek-A-Long: Dr. Doom” and started …
“It doesn’t seem coincidental that the language of knitting has a whiff of narcotics about it.” That’s the first line of an article on knitting in the Dec 11th edition of the Irish Times. The whiff turns out to be needles and lines, which is only mildly funny, but I …
Back again! That’s two days in a row. I might be on a roll. Nothing profound to share today—just the joy of knitting in a day full of errands and waiting. Two days, actually. Yesterday was election day, and today was run-around-all-over-the-county-to-appointments day. Despite some disappointments at the polls, the …
There’s nothing like knitting when you’re on fire for some particular project or technique. It’s a delicious obsession, an embarrassment of riches in the personal fulfillment department. Everyone should be so lucky . . . One of the amazing things about knitting, though, is that there’s also nothing like it …
