One of my secret projects has been released. Lalique is a dainty little lace cardigan with period stitches and tons of beads that I designed for The Sanguine Gryphon’s Spring 2011 Collection.

I know that the picture with the cat doesn’t show much of the sweater, but I love it anyway. I have more pictures on […]

The old water bed is gone. The frame is under the house, and the plastic mattress is still laying in the yard, draining, waiting to be taken up the hill and put in the trash or recycle bin or whatever spot its destined for at this point. (The mattress got itself on the hill by […]

The flurry of massive cleaning that happened last week is a fading memory. Luckily, the house stays clean longer than the painful memories of getting that way remain. Most of them, anyway. It’s so nice to have a clean house again! Our wonderful company, the friends we did all that cleaning for (honestly, we should […]

I’m giving away a prize Knit Purl Gurl’s version of March Madness this year. Check it out.
P.S. Yup. This is the sum total of today’s blog post. This week has been insane. Totally insane. Next week will be a tiny bit better, but the following weekend? Not so much. I’ll blog when I can… […]

Well… Sort of. I’m blocking this sweater where the water bed used to be. But it died. A couple of weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night in a puddle. It was warm, but it was still a puddle. And I was soaked. From mid torso to upper thighs I was […]

First a couple newsy bits
One of XRX’s long time employees is battling with ovarian cancer, and needs your help. Purchase of raffle tickets gets you entered in a drawing to receive a fabulous blanket, and proceeds go to help the fight.
Read Uncommon Threads’ interview with Kaffe Fassett, one of my long-time design heroes. Read about […]

Last Monday I thought I had the button issue resolved. Today I feel like I’m back at square one. Kristie vacillated. Michelle was certain. Dave put the nix on Michelle’s choice. The “brown” buttons look brown in most lights, but when you pick them up and look closely, have really good light, or put them […]

Last night I ripped out everything I’d knit during the day. I hate it when knitting goes that way. Sometimes it does, though. I’d gotten far enough on the first sleeve of my blue cardigan that I could do a temporary seam to see how things were going. The knitting was fine. It was the […]