I got a note from Susan at Crystal Palace Yarns just a few minutes ago. She added my Diamonds in His Shoes sock pattern to their free sock pattern index. There are a couple links back here—one each to the pattern page and to the blog entry when I finished—from their pattern page. That all […]

I’ve been knitting madly on the latest sock. I’m having a ton of fun with this pattern. The intensely blue yarn definitely adds to the knitting enjoyment. I haven’t knit with anything this bright in a long time. And just look at the lovely patterning. Between the stitch pattern and the color shifts there’s a […]

I’ve had a couple of requests for pictures of the smoke in the air. I actually took one yesterday afternoon, when I thought it was kind of bad. See? No mountains in the distance. This was taken about 4 pm. It was a lot darker outside at that time than it would have been without […]

As Susan so astutely noticed, cables are involved in the stitch pattern for my new socks. At least, cable needles are. No, actually, I didn’t mis-type that. Two cable needles are involved, used at the same time; one stitch goes on one of them, three on the other, and various manipulations ensue. It’s not difficult, […]

I cast on for a new pair of socks yesterday evening. I’m using the yarn that Christina sent me for the tea/yarn swap. After grabbing my trusty size 1 double pointed needles I cast on 64 stitches and knit a 2×2 rib for almost an inch before I ran out of steam and went to […]

In some ways I feel guilty spending time knitting, thinking about knitting, while so many so close to me are struggling with fire and its effects, but I’m here to share knitting stuff, and I do need to think about something other than smoke and fire. And I did finish the sweatshirt sweater yesterday, so […]

Unless something out of the ordinary fire-wise happens, or a new fire starts over on this side of the hills, we appear to be out of the woods for this one. Thank goodness. Our bag is still packed, though, and if we have to evacuate and have time to grab stuff, we’ll also be taking […]

We’re still here. The fire, as yet, is still a couple ridges away. Instead of moving west (toward us), it’s been moving primarily south. As to containment and control, acres burned, major roads closed, it’s bad, but so far no structures have been burned, and hundreds would be before it got here. If you want […]

There’s fire just a ridge or two away. Dave went out and looked at it, could see flames reaching toward the sky looking east past the next door neighbor’s house. The winds are blowing like mad. Keep your fingers crossed for us. We’re going to pack up a few things, just in case we have […]

I had this perfectly good, albeit more than a bit whiney, post set and ready to go this morning about poor little me, out here in stupidly-warm-for-the-season-can-you-tell-I-really-miss-autumn southern California, while everyone else is having tons of fun and autumn-y weather at Rhinebeck, SOAR, and Stitches East.
Then several of you posted comments all at the […]