I have this couch, the Beast. I’ve had it longer than I’ve known most of my friends. It’s older than most people I know. The fabric on it has been there since about the time my mother was born—Grandma chose it, had an interior decorator help her design her living room and choose fabrics, colors, […]

Finally.
I did it.
Unraveled the sock to part way down the toe, redid the shaping, finished it up again, and it fits.
Ta da!
More progress on the Iris quick stitch. I’m starting to slow down on it. When I mentioned rotating, Dave thought it would be nice if I at least finished up […]

I knit up the rest of the toe of my first feather and fan sock. I have short feet, so my socks are also short. I know this. No surprise here.
But something seems amiss.
When I worked the toe late last week, it started out too long. I’d have to have had normal length […]

I got this from Kim. According to this, I have no life. But hey, we watch lots of movies, and almost no regular TV, thus getting back a ton of time. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. Most of the movies I’ve seen aren’t on this list. We have a whole closet full […]

I didn’t get as much done as I wanted to over the weekend, but I did most of the fringe for the first side done. Most of it. Would have been more, but our neighbors got home earlier than expected, and we went over there… Would have been a real mess to take a fringing […]

A couple weeks ago, we asked about how you take care of your books, with one of the questions asking whether you write in your books. Well, what about books that are meant to be written in? Like, say, a journal or diary? Do you keep one? Obviously, if you’re answering this, you have a […]

There’s currently a lot more talk (and thought) about knitting here on my blog and in my life. But my evenings are never complete if I don’t get to cross stitch for a bit. Rather interesting, that. I think so, anyway.
I now have just a hair less than twenty percent of this piece done. […]

Good progress is being made on my first feather and fan sock. Heel turned. Check. Gussets knit. Check. Foot knit. Just begun.
Did I tell you? Except for weaving in the ends and doing the fringe, the afghan is done for mom. I know. I’m such a tease. Photos pending. I want to get those […]

We have a tremendous group of friends here in southern California—a huge group of fabulous people. We had eight of them over for dinner on Saturday night. Ron and Troy were our chefs for the evening. Everyone always loves it when Ron cooks. Always. The other cook of the evening switches around; sometimes it’s Dave […]

Had the second interview this afternoon. Not really sure how it went. The first one, earlier in the week, was great. Talked to one guy for two hours, we got along well, saw eye-to-eye on things. It seemed good.
Then today I saw him again, as well as two new people. The second new guy […]