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The sun was just coming up as I left Texas to head home. As I had anticipated, I got to do a lot of airport knitting on this trip. Most of it was on Gramps.   This was the day I left, during the first loooong layover.     This …

Handspun Storm Cloud

Finished, soaked, and blocked Storm Cloud late last night, and managed to get some pics today.  I think I’m really going to enjoy wearing this. I’m taking it with me to Texas for the plane and any other cool spots I might run into. I kind of hope there are …

Labor Day

Calligraphy è finito! It’s not a well-knit sweater because I’m a goof and didn’t swatch. I could try to defend the not swatching by explaining how I got gauge to the millimeter with the last swatch I did, and the sweater ended up way too big. I think that in that …

Catching Up

So my dad is back home with a brand new bionic knee. The guy who came to set up the machine that will bend it back and forth for him, for eight hours a day for three weeks, said they deliver about 20 to 25 of the machines a day …

Freelance Woes And Other Tales Of Self Pity

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 …

Here Now.

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 …