The only thing I currently have on the needles is the secret project I’m working on, and the yarn still hasn’t arrived from Dee at Posh, so there’s a dearth of my own things to share with you. So, here are a couple things that have recently crossed my desk.

Berroco has introduced a new series of how-to videos. According to their latest newsletter, the one below, how to do a nice mattress stitch, is the first in the series. There are a couple others, though, on their video list—picking up stitches along a curved edge, making a button loop, and making a four-stitch bobble. Like most people, I used to abhor doing mattress stitch—so much so that when I knit an Aran pullover for my husband I crocheted the pieces together. Some day I need to fix that. Somewhere along the way, though, I saw the light, and now I love seaming with mattress stitch. There’s something quite satisfying about making a seam from the front that doesn’t show from the front once done. It’s a little piece of seaming magic.

The following makes me groan, and that’s all there is to it.

Oh, and a month ago I took this picture of the mountain range that I can see from my house. It was the morning after a cold storm that dumped a bunch of snow on that range out there. For here, the sky was very blue. Today it’s foggy, and you’d swear, looking out my window, that there’s nothing out there that’s more than a quarter mile away, much less a mountain range.