Art by Chiara Bautista

I can’t begin to say how much I love this. The artist is Chiara Bautista. I’ve tried to find a way to contact her to ask for permission to post her artwork here, but I haven’t been able to locate an email address, mailing address, or anything else. There’s a …

Manna

How does this happen? I mean, thank goodness it happens eventually rather than not happening at all, but how can it be that there is some amazing thing or person or idea in the world that everyone has known about and loved and been amazed by since forever but of …

Pro Tip

When you’ve been sitting at your computer working all day, and you aren’t anywhere close to being done, and you feel yourself starting to hyperventilate, look down.* *Snoozing dog and fun striped sock-in-progress recommended for best results.

Here . . .

With today’s post I just want to say that I am here. I can’t think of anything particularly interesting or funny or useful to say except that I’m reminded by Jean Miles how much it means to just carry on. The longer I live the more I’m convinced that life is …

The Frog And The Rat

One of the most amazing things about reading happens when you come upon a passage that puts into words one of your personal truths. You know those times? When things you know in your bones but have never had the language to articulate are suddenly there on the page? When …

Let It Rain

It’s a rainy day on the mountain. The weather here is almost always interesting. Everything seems to happen on a bigger scale than it did when we lived in the suburbs. It’s pretty wonderful. The not so wonderful part will be the llama shearing in the downpour that is supposed …

Drive By

This is just a quicky post because it’s been WAY too long. And I have pictures! It’s finally sunny enough outside to get some shots of the Honey Cowl . . .     This was a super fast, fun knit, and the yarn (the COLOR!) set off about a …

Wool You Be My Valentine?

  Happy Valentine’s Day, knitters! This valentine is from a Ravelry friend. It made me smile this morning before I’d even finished my coffee. Hope it makes you smile too. My knitting is mostly therapeutic these days because it’s finals week, and on top of that, I’ve been traveling some. …

Lucky and the Frog Pond

  Okay, so this wasn’t the way I planned to open my next blog entry, but what’s a knitta gonna do? I’ve decided to look at this mess as a breakthrough. I hate to frog. Haaaate to frog. In fact, I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever …