It’s still growing. It’s starting to take a little longer to knit each block, though! I finished up block seven this morning, while it was still dark out. There’s something magical about knitting in the very early morning. Next will be to pick up the stitches for block eight. I’ll do that block in the […]

With Rachel’s help (thank you!), I think—I hope—we have the last of the bugs worked out of the fabric calculator.
If you have any problems with it, please, please let me know. I’ll need to know what the problem is including any error numbers/text, what browser you’re using (including version), what operating system your’re running, […]

I read Ghost’s answers to this week’s Booking Through Thursday, then browsed her blog a bit, where I found a link to a visual thesaurus. I love these things. Isn’t this cool?

This week’s SBQ was suggested by Anna M.:
What do you keep your WIPs and other stitching supplies in when traveling?
It depends. If I’m traveling by car, I tuck my floss box, scissors, etc. into my old knitting bag. If the work in progress is small enough, it gets tucked in there, too. If not, then […]

Someone at Berroco’s getting too cute, or they’re, well, I don’t know what they are. The email that announced this design says this:
Our crew neck pullover can be transformed into an ethnic costume with a touch of the “Eurasian Peasant.”
If nothing else, I think they’re somewhat confused. A friend of mine has made some study […]

Have you ever wanted to travel to a place described in a book? Oh yes. Most definitely. I’m reading about Egypt right now (Elizabeth Peters’ Tomb of the Golden Bird), and want to go desperately—I wonder if I’d see Ramses, Amelia, and Emerson emerging from some dank tomb or pyramid… I’ve wanted to cruise down […]

About a year ago my dear, sweet, wonderful husband did a little bit of programming for me, I formatted it, and viola! a new web-based fabric calculator was born. I recently discovered, to my horror, that the calculator just didn’t work under Firefox. Dave fixed this, and did one more little thing for me. He […]

The great knitting race
Thank you, Cheryl, for making sure I voted for a winner in the Wing-of-the-Moth shawl knitting race (though I didn’t vote for you). I went out and looked at all the contestant’s pages, and ended up voting for Julia. Go Julia, go!
Yummy yarn
How does KnitPicks do it? They keep sending me […]

Got word from a dear friend a few minutes ago that he and his wife had to make a difficult decision today. They put down their sweet pooch, Freya, a brindle boxer with a heart of gold. We saw the family just a couple weeks ago, and Freya had begun having seizures. The seizures got […]

I got that long slender white block done yesterday, and I’ve picked up stitches for the next block. These are in the medium pink. I hope I have enough of it to do the whole block. If not, I’ll improvise.
Can you tell I’m enjoying this? It’s certainly moving along quickly. I think the only thing […]