Early last year I got several bags of sewing fabrics from my next door neighbor’s eldest son. He’d moved his mother out of her home (sadly, it was time), and was clearing out the house to sell when Dave mentioned to him that I might be interested in the fabric. He gave it to me. […]

See those moth holes? When you come right down to it, they’re the main cause of the deterioration of my poor old bag, therefore the reason I’m knitting a new one. Poor old thing. I still feel terrible about it.
I think the new bag shape will work out much better this time. I’m glad […]

Absolutely delightful. Aren’t they? I just love African Violets. I mean. How could anyone not? Look at those charming little flowers. And the buds. Make sure you get in close so you can see the flower buds down there, nestled between the leaves. Tucked down there under a leaf on the lower right side of […]

I have a (so far) successful re-start to my knitting bag. This time I cast on 30 stitches—instead of 29—worked a 1 x 1 rib for six rows, purled a row, then knit an increase row, where I knit into the front and back of every other stitch. Inelegant, I know, but with this thick, […]

A progression:

I know. It’s backwards. I didn’t like the shape.
I think what I need to do is to make a bunch of increases just down from the ribbing, then ease the bag out a little wider to its maximum width over the next number of rows.
By the way, my swatch lied. It […]

I have had this dear, old project bag since I was in grade school, about forty years now (maybe thirty-nine, but close enough). It was crocheted by a good friend of my grandmother’s, Elsie…
When Elsie died, her children invited us—Grandma, mom, dad, and me—to go through her house, and take absolutely anything that we […]

I knit on the Melon shawl like a fiend over the weekend, an absolute fiend. I got the first side done, turned the corner, and made it about two-thirds of the way across the top. If I’m diligent, and can stay awake long enough, I may get to that next corner tonight. As soon as […]

Sometimes I think that if I had two brain cells to run together I’d be dangerous.
Really.
I was on the phone with Sony this morning about my camera, getting more frustrated by the minute, and I had a sudden, horrifying thought. I looked at the top of the camera. Lo and behold, the dial that’s nearly […]

I took a couple photos of the dresser on my way out to the grocery store this afternoon—again with the camera in the cell phone, so no great shakes, but I know you’ll cope…

The photo on the right is the drawer-less, top-less dresser. In the center, Dave working on the top piece, trying to […]

More paint is coming off the dresser. Dave’s made more progress on it this morning, but here’s what it looked like when he was done yesterday afternoon.

Camera woes
I apologize for the quality of the photographs. I took them with the camera in my cell phone. I turned on my Cybershot yesterday to take pictures […]