Hm. That doesn’t sound quite right somehow… Oh well.
There is snow up there, though. See? The first photo was our first glimpse early Sunday morning after a very cold Saturday here in the southland. It actually hailed in a number of places, including on Dave when he was out running errands in Orange, and […]
I have cut and prepared the fabric for both Stepsisters and Winding the Skeins. I’ll be stitching Stepsisters on 32-count jobelan in lambswool, 2 over 2. Winding the Skeins will be on 25-count ivory lugana, 1 over 1. I just need to put the velcro-like stuff on them, so I can put them on the […]
Do you have an organizational system for your patterns? If so, how do you organize them? If not, have you considered organizing them?
I wouldn’t call what I do a system, per se. I don’t really have all that many cross stitch patterns… My patterns are in sleeves if they fit in them, and are arranged […]
This week’s questions are from Cate.
Do you have any books that are signed by the author? Lots. Lots and lots. I love having books that have been signed by the author. With two exceptions that I can think of offhand, I was never the one doing the autograph collecting. The books were already signed when […]
Purple sock
The second purple sock is progressing quite well. I’ve knit the heel flap and turned the heel. I also picked up the stitches for the gusset on one side, and some of the stitches for the other gusset.
Floss pulling
When I got home on Monday I decided it was time to organize some floss. […]
Serves me right, too, for trying to remember the last road sign I saw when I was driving. Darla set me straight. I thought that since I was setting things straight, I might as well provide a little more information.
The Tejon Pass has changed elevations several times during its life, when the road going […]
Most people I know who drive to and from the San Francisco Bay Area from here (Orange County and Los Angeles) go up Interstate 5 (”the 5″ to those of us down here), and hate it. Even my wonderful hubby thinks it’s totally boring. I don’t. I love it. I love the fields of crops, […]
We don’t normally get very many rainbows here. Honest. They’re pretty rare. Mother nature wants to make a liar of me, though, so she gave us another fabulous rainbow last Friday. Maybe she’s trying to make up for the lack of rain she’s given us so far this season. We viewed this rainbow off our […]
The Yarn Harlot’s Knitting Olympics has definitely been big news for the last month or so. It made it into the recent newsletter from Berroco. They even showed Franklin’s wonderful winner’s medal, and gave both blogs full credit. Totally cool.
One does wonder, however, what in the world Stephanie’s going to come up with to […]
My friend Denise’s family decided to do a wake this weekend for him. Next weekend they’ll have a big, formal Catholic funeral for him. In spite of the fact that he raised his girls—all four of them—as Catholics, as adults none of them embraced it (in a way I find this rather sad). But he […]