Just a quick little post to let you all know I’m alive and well, and home again. Hope to have a real post for you before too long… but probably not today.

I’ve been working merrily along on my purple socks. Finally got the lace pattern worked out. I ended up knitting the “foundation row” only to arrange the stitches on my needles and make sure that I had the right number of stitches, then headed out from there. I knit for a while during the Superbowl. […]

I’m not ready to jump back into my green cardigan (I’m having doubts that it’s the right size, so I’m avoiding the inevitable), and I got tired of waiting to have the chance to go get that long circular so I could start the moebius for Mom, so I started a new pair of purple […]

On occasion we are quite silly around here. This particular vein of silliness branched from a not-so-silly event: my old kitty’s death. I’d had Deli for 19 years, and was devastated with she died. With everything else that had been going on that year, it was a bit of the straw and the camel, and […]

Kim’s decided to try to make a dent in her stash, and is inviting others to join her in her three month Stashalong. I haven’t decided for sure if I’m going to participate yet, but I did make her a couple buttons to use. And she likes them. Hey, Mikey! The button above is transparent […]

You Are Rudolph

Sweet and shy, you tend to be happiest when you’re making someone else happy.
Why You’re Naughty: You sometimes stick that nose where it doesn’t belong
Why You’re Nice: Christmas would be a sad affair without you!

Which of Santa’s Reindeer Are You?

One knit tube. Done. Well, except for weaving in the ends. I hate weaving in ends, so who knows when I’ll get around to that. Since these aren’t meant to be worn outside my house, perhaps I’ll wear them anyway. In fact, I wouldn’t be at all surprised. After many tryings-on while knitting last night, […]

Ooh. I forget sometimes how quickly knitting goes with fatter yarns and larger needles. I’m knitting these on size 5 circulars (32 inches, as it turns out), and am already nearly done with the first wrist warmer. I know. It doesn’t look like much here. Just a tube…

But then I put it on so you […]

Yes. I’m still sick. Poop. Still can’t really talk, either. Every time I try I cough like mad. Thank goodness, though, for small favors, such as saline nose spray. The stuff works better than I thought it would, doesn’t hurt like the other kinds tend to, and is much safer to use. Yippee! So, while […]

Do you have rules in the way you stitch? (i.e., Do you start in the middle? Do you determine which blocks to stitch first? Do you always start from the top or the bottom? Do you have special paths to prevent wasting thread?)

Whenever possible I start at the top left corner of the design. The […]