In honor of the first day of Autumn, I made blackberry buttermilk cake for lunch. It was this recipe, but with blackberries. It was very good. I was out of town for awhile. There was knitting and beer drinking in a hotel. There was knitting and coffee drinking in a …
A few weeks ago Donna Druchunas posted a list of her ten favorite knitting books. One of the books she mentioned was Knitting Heaven and Earth by Susan Gordon Lydon. She said, “This is hands-down my favorite non-pattern book about knitting, and the best writing about knitting I have ever read.” I …
Behold the Crystal Palace Yarn sweater! Its proper name is He’ll Wear It Every Day (from The Yarn Girls’ Guide to Simple Knits). As you can guess from the pattern name, it’s actually sized for men. I knew it would be a bit big, but I just knit the smallest version and …
Someone is stealing weeks. It has to be that, or how it could be June 13th?! Yikes! It turned out I wasn’t quite fully healed by the peach. It helped, but it took until the end of last week for me to feel like I was totally back on track. As …
I’m back home after a longish trip to Texas. The visit with my family was really, really good, but nothing beats getting back to my guys. I did quite a bit of knitting while I was away although I don’t have much to show for it other than the big …
This video interview with Kaffe Fassett is absolutely wonderful. I came across it on My Sister’s Knitter and am so thankful I did. It’s been around since 2012, so I don’t know how I haven’t already seen it, but I’m thinking it’s one of those things that just came up at …
Being absolutely buried in work makes me want to knit and read more than ever. That’s a problem for obvious reasons. I do what I can. Sometimes, I even carry my knitting from room to room, just in case there’s an open moment for a row or two. That happened when …
These are the knitting things I packed for the fire evacuation. I loaded three bins of yarn into the car as well but took them out. Moving counter clockwise from the lower left corner: my current WIP the yarn and other supplies for the Geek-A-Long blanket and the squares I’ve …
Why you ALWAYS take your knitting EVERYWHERE… We spent Easter Sunday in the ER after my dad cut the end of his finger off with a miter saw. When he called we were on a walk a mile or so up into the hills in a nearby park. We had …
I might be in love with the Travel Shawl. Folded in half it’s a cozy shoulder wrap. Opened up, it’s a bigger wrap. Or even a small blanket. And it’s a fairly quick knit. I knit all but a tiny bit of the beginning and the outer edge during a …
