The Santa Ana winds have been blowing again for the last few days. Yesterday morning they were especially bad. Bad enough that they blew out a local cable line, and pulled down power to a good chunk of our neighborhood for seven hours yesterday. From 9:15 am to 4:30 pm we were down. No power. […]
For the last several months I’ve been scouring poking around on the Internet, looking for a dressmaker’s form that I can use to display shawls and things on, so that I don’t have to hang them over the railing. The glass blocks are nice enough, but are rather distracting. I’ve periodically tried to enlist Dave’s […]
I’ve got to get ready to get out of the house, but wanted to share a couple of in-progress cardigan photos with you. Here they are. Hope you have a fabulous weekend!
P.S. Denise, I love using these little flower stitch markers! They’re awesome. Haven’t snagged a petal yet.
The knitting is done. I’ve proclaimed that the felting is done. Now it just needs to finish drying. The outside of the bag seems dry, but the inside is still quite wet. Yes, that is a definite stripe a bit under the handles. When I bought this yarn, years ago, I told the company I […]
Decision made. I’m not going to submit this sweater pattern anywhere. There’s a little something else I have in mind that I think I will submit… So, you get to see what I knit last week! Yup. The basic design plan, and all the knitting for my sample sweater took ten days—including weaving in the […]
I noticed a lot of attention to my Diamonds in His Shoes pattern again, so looked into it. I discovered, much to my delight, that the pattern was recently featured on Whip Up, a site similar to Lime & Violet’s Daily Chum, but which includes more than just knitting highlights. They have some great stuff […]
To market, to market to buy a fat hog
I finally got the second ball of yarn I need to finish up my market bag. Hooray! Though bummed to not be able to get it on sale at Webs, I did manage to find a nice little shop, Flying Fingers Yarn Shop, to buy it from. […]
There was an earthquake last night, in the wee hours. It was small enough, from here, that I know I wouldn’t have felt it one little bit, if I hadn’t been awake already. It was just a 4.1, and it was centered up near Yucaipa, near Big Bear. I always find it interesting to look […]
It’s 0:dark-30, and we were just serenaded by our neighborhood pack of coyotes. They went on for a couple of minutes tonight. Wonder what set them off tonight. They probably caught something. It’s funny. Living in the midst of literally millions of people, how common coyotes are in certain neighborhoods. Like mine. It’s a tiny […]