Handknit Socks and Other Essentials

Socks: I’ve finally finished a pair of socks I started for my dad last fall during all the back and forth to Texas. On Christmas Eve, I wrapped up one half-knit sock and gave it to him in a restaurant after a crazy long day at the hospital with my …

Otherwise

  A post on the Brain Pickings Facebook page started me thinking about Jane Kenyon earlier this week. Her poem “Otherwise” gets in my head from time to time and stays there. I find the truth of it both wonderful and awful.   Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong …

Socks!!

You knitters already know this, but for any woodworkers or bird watchers who might have ended up here, let me say that if you’ve never worn a pair of handmade socks, hurry up and befriend a knitter! There’s nothing better.     I finished these yesterday. The yarn is yummy …